NO FAMINE IN ENGLAND
BUT CERTAIN DEFINITE i SHORTAGES FOOD-CLEARING SYSTEM IN VIEW. (AUS. AND' N.Z. CABLE ASSN. AND REUTER.) LONDON, 24th January. The Press Bureau states that a deputation of Manchester engineers and munition workers waited upon Lord Ehondda, Food Controller, and asked for a definite assurance that, in view of the food shortage, steps would be taken for national rationing. Lord Ehondda said there was no famine, and no likelihood of one, but there was a definite shortage of meat, butter, bacon, and margarine. The local schemes would ultimately be welded into a national scheme. Nearly two thousand food control committees were now at work. Arrangements were being made to create a food clearing-house, the aim being to give eacli district a fair share. Cabinet had authorised a Bill to deal with profiteering, by exacting from an offender double the amount of his illegal profit, in addition to the penalty, i
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 23, 26 January 1918, Page 5
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153NO FAMINE IN ENGLAND Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 23, 26 January 1918, Page 5
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