BRITISH FARMERS
DOUBLE DUTY IN WAR
RUGBY, June 0.
Speaking to Somerset farmers, the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Hudson, said that though Britain's shipping losses since the war began would be made good eventually, necessarily new shipbuilding must still take some time. They all hoped they were nearing the time when they could take up new offensives; but that meant ships and more ships.
Farmers had a double duty now, namely, to help in the defence of their country by preventing the enemy starving them out, and also to help i,ri the attack on their enemies by growing food so as to release ships for the armies and munitions of war that they were gathering for the attack.
The shipping available for bringing food to this country had been shrinking fast. They should have less this year than last, and next year they should have to make do with the minimum of shipping only, It was there' fore vital that they should grow as much as posible.~-8.0,W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 133, 8 June 1942, Page 4
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