ENORMOUS TOTAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 4 December 1940, Page 6

ENORMOUS TOTAL

WAR SAVINGS IN BRITAIN [U.P.A.-By Electric Telegraph-Copyright) LONDON, 2nd December. The chairman of the National Savings Campaign revealed at Newcastle to-day that war savings had now reached the enormous total of £480,I 000,000, and including investments in the post office, a total of £486.000,000. This result he described as a magnificent start on the part of the small savers, but he called for still greater . effort. HARDER LIVING AHEAD ; LONDON. 2nd December. . The Minister of Food. Lord Wool ton. ’ speaking at Manchester, announced : that his Christmas present to the people ' of Britain would be a postponement of cutting down the meat ration. At / the same time, he warned the country that it would have to live harder. He said that that did not mean that they ■ must tighten their belts. That was a - wrong phrase. They would not go hungry. In order to take the offensive we should have to use for military pur- , ’ poses part of that great mercantile : fleet which brought us food from afar, f The year 1940 had found Britain taking 5 it, but 1941 would find Britain giving ' it back with interest. As we began to 5 take the offensive the world would l cheer up.