FOOD SITUATION IN BRITAIN.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14621, 28 January 1918, Page 6

FOOD SITUATION I N BRITAIN.

tJBGENT APi'EAi. TO AMERICA.

GREAT TC.KKAT yiil'Ml-NTS ESSEN-

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GRATIFYING EEJ/LY FROM MR HOOVER.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association!'

("Received Jan. 27, 5.5 p.m.) j Washington, Jan. 26. Lord Ehondda, on behalf of the British, French, and Italian Governments, cabled to Mr Hoover as follows :-—' 'Unless you are able to «ond to million \busliels of wheat above what you exported to February Ist irrespective of Canadian exports, I cannot take the reyponsibilitv of assuring our people that there will be sufficient food to win the war. It now lies with America to decide whether the AUies shall have enough food to hold out until th« Americans take the field.'1 ■ Mr Hoover replied: "We will export every grain America can save from normal consumption. "We will not fail to meet the emergency." Mr Hoover states that America has already exported sixty million bushels, but it is absolutely necessary for the country to .reduce the present consumption by 30 per cent.