BRITAIN'S FOOD SAFE, DESPITE DIVER MENACE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14658, 16 July 1918, Page 6

BRITAIN'S FOOD SAFE, DESPITE DIVER MENACE.

LONDON, June 6. John R. Clynes, Parliamentary secretary of the Ministry of Food, told the House of Commons that no efforts of the German submarines, however severe, could menace the civilian population of Britain. He said that 457,000 tons of bacon and ham recently had been imported from America. Clynes said 100,000 additional, acres of potatoes had been planted m Great Britain, while 120,000 acres had been planted m lieland. The margarine manufacture, he added, had increased fourfold since the war began, and the country now is independent of margarine imports.