"LIVE HARDER"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23830, 4 December 1940, Page 9

"LIVE HARDER"

MINISTER'S WARNING BURDEN ON SHIPPING BRITAIN'S IMPORTS CUT By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received December 3, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. '2 "We must live harder, using home produce to the maximum and "importing only necessary supplementary slocks of foods that have already been bought and are now lying at: ports all over (lie world," said the Minister of Food, Lord Wool ton, in a speech.

"We n«-ed more ships, and must increase our ships' usefulness by at least ]0 per rent. We cannot, afford to bring in things not essential to the war. That is why I hare cut nut imports of all fruits except oranges, and all canned fruits. "My Christmas box to you is an undiminished meat ration—which will, however, be smaller in the near future. You may also have less bacon from time to time than you are now receiving."

19 SHIPS LOST LATEST BRITISH FIGURES WEEK TO NOVEMBER 25 THREE ALLIED VESSELS SUNK LONDON, Dec. :s Nineteen British merchant ships totalling 7">.500 tons were lost by enemy action during the week ended November 2.**>. In addition, three Allied ships of nearly 1,2,500 tons were lost. These losses, states the British Broadcasting Corporation, are above the weekly average, but are well under onehalf of those of the worst week of the war. Germany lost 26.000 tons of merchant shipping in three days of last week. SHIPPING ATTACKED BOMBERS AND U-BOATS DISTRESS SIGNALS HEARD (Received December U. 8.80 p.m.) NEW YORK, Dec, 2 The Maokay Radio reports having picked up messages showing that aircraft and submarine attacks have been made on six more ships. They are the Yugoslav steamer Cetvrti, of 1937 tons, bombed in latitude 51 degrees 30 minutes north, longitude 11 degrees 52 minutes west; the Panama steamer Victor Ross, of 11.188 tons, attacked by a submarine 56 degrees 4 minutes north, 18 degrees 30 minutes west; the Kilgerran Castle, bombed. 25 miles south-west of Kinsale Head; the Tvoch Ranza. with the shipwrecked crew of another vessel on hoard, torpedoed and sinking, 54 degrees 37 minutes north, 18 degrees 54 minutes west; the British steamer W. Hendrik, of 4360 tons, torpedoed. 55 degrees north, 15 degrees 40 minutes west. One unknown vessel has also sent an SOS message from the same vicinity. LINER REQUISITIONED REPORT FROM HONGKONG SEARCH FOR GERMAN RAIDER MANILA, Dec. 2 Reliable reports from travellers who have reached Manila from Hongkong state that the British Government requisitioned the Canadian Pacific liner Knipress of Russia on Thursday, on the eve of sailing, and disembarked all the passengers. It is reported that the liner will be used as an auxiliary cruiser for hunting German raiders in the South Pacific. The Empress of Russia is very speedy. She is unarmoured, but United States naval authorities are of the opinion that she could be heavily armed with 4in. guns at Hongkong within two weeks.