FOOD SITUATION IN BRITAIN.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14622, 29 January 1918, Page 5

FOOD SITUATION IN BRITAIN.

ACUTE AIEAT SHORTAGE

STRIKE AT PETERBOROUGH

DISORDERS ELSEWHERE

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London, Jan. 27. The meat shortage is most acute. Record queues assembled at Smithfield at 5 o'clock. The stalls were cleared before noon. Late comers secured only liver, sheep's kidneys and tinned meats. Many queues formed in the suburbs and pro\inces. Six thousand workers at Peterborough downed tools as a protest against the food shortage. Ttere was a processsion to a ground, where the speakers urged that the strike should continue until food supplies were adequate. Tons of diseased meat which is reaching Smithfield from Ireland .has been condemned as taint for consumption. Mounted police and special constables were called out at Tottenham and Ed-

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monton to control a mile-long queue. At Bootle the crowd stoned food officials making an effort to commandeer margarine.