ACITE MEAT SHORTAGE
PROTEST STRIKE :AT PETER-
BOROUGH!
(Received January 23, 8.30 a.m.)
LONDON,-27tb January. The meat shortage ie the moat acute yet recorded/ Queues assembled at Smithfield market, at 5 o'clock in the mbrning, and the 'stalls were cleared before noon.' Late-comers Secured oiily liver, sheeps' kidneys, and tinned meats. Thfei'6 were many queues iri the suburb* aild, in Jihei provinces. At Peterborough. (Northamptonshire) six thousand workers downed took as a protest against the food shortage. A prooessioh was fbrmed, and (speakers urged that the etrike. 1 should continue ■until food supplies were adequate. Tons of. diseased meat ate reaching Smithfleld' from Ireland. The meat is being coridertined as unfit for consumption. ' ■
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 24, 28 January 1918, Page 7
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113ACITE MEAT SHORTAGE Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 24, 28 January 1918, Page 7
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