RIGID ECONOMY NECESSARY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15195, 16 April 1917, Page 5

RIGID ECONOMY NECESSARY.

WARNING TO BRITISH NATION. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) Received April 16, 9,1b a.m. LONDON, April 15. Mr Kennedy Jones states that it will be necessary to save every crumb of bread. Persons throwing away crusts and housewifes neglecting rigid supervision of household rations are a!! helping the enemy. Everybody should become his own food controller, eating a pound less bread weekly than before the war. It is officially calculated that this will provide a margin of safety for bread supplies, despite the continuation of torpedolngs, and enable the nation to carry on till the new harvests. The nation should feel on its honour to reduce the consumption of bread. If it is not reduced speedily compulsory rationing will be introduced. He believed the armies would compel the Kaiser to throw up the sponge by September.