BRITAIN’S FOOD

Grey River Argus, 8 January 1941, Page 10

BRITAIN’S FOOD

Empty Butcher Shops SHORTAGE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE. (Received January 7, 8.35 p.m.) LONDON, January 6. Th e butchers are demanding that measures shall be taken to prevent the angry queues that are forming outside of their shops, as they did this week-end, when thousands of the butchers were not only short of supplies, but without any meat. The Federation of Meat Traders are now urging that the value °1 the weekly meat ration shall be reduced in proportion to the actual supply of meat that is available. One meat trader expressed the opinion that the ration should be immediately reduced to fifteen pence per head per week. Many of the meat traders are receiving only half their allocations. The traders expect that the meat shortage will continue.

Meat Ship Torpedoed (Received January 7, 8.10 p.m.) LONDON, January 6. A Berlin report claims that a Üboat torpedoed the Duquesa, a British vessel of 8651 tons, bound for England and laden with frozen meat. The vessel was torpedoed off the Irish coast.