DAY BY DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13886, 11 October 1918, Page 4

DAY BY DAY

That the most, serious food shortage will come after the war is the opinion of the British food expert. "We shall he absolutely dependent on America in handling this shortage, which is certaiol> coming," Ik; "France's food production alone has decreased if) per cent, since the war, and England always has depended largely upon outside sources for its supply. While Australia can be looked to for large production, the question of time enters into it. Under normal conditions a ship can make 10 to 12 trips between Europe and the United States, while only three trips can lie made between Australia and England. Also, farm labour will be short because of the demand for labour by manufacturers. Wages will be ugh, and farm work will not appeal to labourers." There is little possibility j l Period of over-production of food, and all signs point to a long period of lngh-priced farm products (savs an American farm paper), with consequent farm prosperity.

Post-War Food Shortage.

A protest was made early in July l)fr' Lord Denbigh, against the tone ef a speech made by Sir Walter Raleigh, Professor of English Literature at Oxford, who spoke on the "nubility" of the "simple German soldier" and said: "Is it to be believed that our people can behave nobly only on the condition that tliry are made to believe that we are lighting orang-outangs?" Lord Denbigh in an interview with a Weekly Despatch representative said: "I contend that i-othing could be more mischievous than conveying to the people the idea that the Boche is a chivalrous enemy. Individual acts of chivalry on the part of individual soldiers in the Held anno doubt numerous in so large an army. 1 should be the last to suggest that every (ierman soldier is a savage; but as a race they are always bullies, and as a nation, especially with Prussians and BaVarians, savagery of the worst description is part of their syst.-m in war time towards an invaded population. If the (ierman Army got loose in Kngland it would, without the smallest doubt, libel the orang-outangs to suggest that anything they could do could equal the Boche in liendish horror and cruelty."

A Libel on the Orang-outangs,