FOOD SUPPLIES IN WAR TIME.
PERSONNEL OF THE <X>MM3BBJ.ON. United Press Association—By Electrio ' Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 20. "The Times" describes the personnel of the Commission on food supplies as a guarantee that the inquiry will be serious and business-like. The Commission includes the Right Hon. Henry Chaplin, M.P., Mr Edmund Robertson, M.P. for Dundee, Mr A. Emmott, M.P. for Oldham, and Mr J. Wilson, M.P. for Mid-Durham. The Premier, promised the Commission on March 6th, in reply to an influential deputation. After listening to a. number of speeches, Mr Balfour agreed that the country depended for its corn and raw manufacturing material on abroad, but combated the theory that we might ever be in a- position precisely resembling a beleaguered city. He did not think sufficient attention was paid to the part neutrals would play in the event of war, for corn was not, according to the law of nations, contraband of wax. And, os to the suggestion that a powerful and unscrupulous enemy would disregard that law, did tbey suppose that a neutral nation would look upon the capture of its own corn in its own vessels with equanimity?
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Press, Issue 11564, 22 April 1903, Page 7
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