WAR SCARE REACTION
Swiss Building Up Food Stocks BERNE. The Swiss Government is believed to have ordered the printing of food ration cards in case of war. A hint
j of this leaked out when the Federal Council (Cabinet; replied in writing i to a deputy’s question on what measures the Government proposed to use to combat war scare. The Federal Council ansv.-ered: ! ‘‘The press and the people have been 1 alerted to the necessity of building up stocks of food toils That is a simple measure of prudence, as is the printing j of ration cards. In any case, there has j
' been no panic. If there have been : some blameworthy excesses, the great majority of the Swiss people has not allowed itself to be impressed by false rumours ’’—'Reuter. i'L'.(Ji'l_fc A’tu, navt 'nini;> <■ •.ikme loi something tin* \ • n >u.v (■•id the Otago Daily Times U you wish to reach them, advertise In the j Classified Columns
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27499, 20 September 1950, Page 4
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158WAR SCARE REACTION Otago Daily Times, Issue 27499, 20 September 1950, Page 4
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