MORE AUSTERE WAR EFFORT
(Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, February 26. Evidence is already accumulating of the more austere war effort which Sir Stafford Cripps demanded and promised. A further drastic cut in the petrol ration is being announced shortly to eliminate all motoring except for urgent and important purposes. Sporting fixtures may be limited to one day weekly. The banning of carparks and a further reduction in the permissible minimum attendances at sports meetings are also expected, and all sport will possibly be zoned to reduce travel.
The Home Office, the Ministry of Food and the Board of Trade are combining to crush the “black market.” The Government is evolving a plan to inflict heavier penalties and the Board of Trade is employing “detectors” who will “infiltrate” to expose “black marketers.”
The Board of Deputies of British Jewry has organized a nation-wide campaign to trace “black marketers.” Its president, Professor Selig Brodetsky, in urging the Government to increase the penalties, declared, “Any Jew who commits such offences brings contempt on the Jewish name.”
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Southland Times, Issue 24681, 28 February 1942, Page 5
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