EUROPE'S LARDER.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11447, 29 January 1918, Page 8

EUROPE'S LARDER.

PROCLAMATION BY PRESIDENT WILSON. AMERICA MUST EAT LESS. ■Washington, Jan. ‘l7. President Wilson has issued a proclamation asking Americans to ro('■me wheat consumption by JO per o ant and to observe Mondays and ■Wednesdays ns wheatless days, Tuesdays'as meatlelss, Saturdays ns porkless days and one whcatless meal daily. "President Wilson declared that the sacrifices are necessary to meet a grout responsibility as "Eurnuo’s subsistence rests very largely on our shoulders. Mr Hoover announced that bakers hereafter shall make victory bread, vidiich must not contain more tnan HO per cent of wheat. He has also announced that the Government will purchases thirty per cent of the nation’s flour output totalling three millions of bushels monthly, lor exportation to the Allies.