THE FOOD PROBLEM
RESTORING FRANCE'S AGRICULTURE. 100,000 ACRES UNDER CULTIVATION (Reuter's Telegrams.) Received May 20, 5.5 p.m. PARIS, May 19. The Temps correspondent at the British front states that each British army has 500 agricultural workers, supervised by officers who were agriculturists before the war, cleaning the battered ground with special machines from England, thus helping to increase France's food production. The people greatly appreciate the British help in restoring agriculture in the liberated territory. Already 100,000 acres in the Somme department are under cultivation. AMERICA'S CO-OPERATION. .MATERIAL EFFECTS ANTICIPATED (Australian ana N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received May 20, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, May 19. Th* Food Controller expects that if the scheme projected for America's cooperation in food supplies is successful it will materially improve the situation of ourselves and our Allies. MANUFACTURERS' SUPPLIES REDUCED. Received Mav 20, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, May 19. Lord Davonport has reduced the manufacturers' allowance from 40 to 25 per cent of the amount use:l in 1915. This does not apply to jams or condensed milk.
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13489, 21 May 1917, Page 5
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