THE FOOD PROBLEM IN BRITAIN

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3064, 27 April 1917, Page 5

THE FOOD PROBLEM IN BRITAIN

CORN PRODUCTION BILL DEBATED

NATIONAL GRANARIES

•. London, April 25. In the House of Commons, the de* bate on the Corn Produotion Bill show./" ed a stroug Liberal, opposition to the proposal to guarantee "minimum prices to the farmer. The .Nationalists support the Government. ■

Mr. Runciman said that national' security would , tie better achieved by. storing wheat in national granaries-, holding enough for three years' consumption. It was reported! that the authorities were..reducing the : .bread' ration of the Army owing to the'shortage of wheat and flour, and the meat ration was being correspondingly increased. The stocks of meat lad been recently raised owing to the killing of cattle to save feeding stuffs and the system of meatless ( days.—Aus.-N.Z.-Cable Assn. BILL READ A SECOND TIME. (Rec. April 27, 0.15 a.m.) ■ London, Asril 26. The Coru Production Bill was read a Bccond time by 288 votes to 27: ; The Labour Party intends t<) introduco an amendment in Committee to iucrease the minimum wage to agriculturists to 30s.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn., PUBLIC SOLEMNLY WARNED SEYERE PRIVATIONS I ; THREATENED (Rec. April 26, 8.10 p.m.) ■ London, 'April 2-5. During the course of a debate in thi House of Lords on the .question of the limitation of food, Lord Devonport (the . Food Controller) impressed upon the House the necessity for a reduction in the consumption of bread to 41bs. per ■ head per week. Meat consumption; nad been considerably reduced, but the*. BUgat allowance must be reduced to Jib. per week. It would depend -upon . tlie people's consumption of bread and s oilier foodstuffs within the next two months whether compulsory' rationing would be found necessary. He then warned them that in the meantime the machinery for compulsory rationing was being organised, - and declared that if some diminution in consumption was not accomplished, we would not get through to the next harvest exoepfe wTfclij severe privation.—Router. PRACTICAL REPRISALS AIR BAIDS ON GERMAN HARVEST . FIELDS. . London, April 25. Lord l Calthorpe proposes that the* Allied aeroplanes should drop fireballs in the Rhine Valley and on the Hungarian Plains to destroy crops, as these) are like tinder when ripe. ,The appara-» tus and experiments must be made immediately, as the rye harvest in Germany begins in June.—Aus.-NiZ. Cabl* Assn. . ANZAC DAY IN LONDON MEMORIAL SERVICES. London, April 25. Mrs. -Andrew Fisher, Lady North-* cote, Lady Godley, and the Agents-< General attended the Anzao memorial services. The Bishop of Willesdenj who preached, said the Australians on Gal* fipoli, though not victorious, were nob defeated. When history was written.' the most wonderful fact would be that before there was any suggestion of conscription in Australia, Canada, or England millions had volunteered for the Empire. The Wood shed on Gallipoh and elsewhere had made a real instead: of a nominal Empire. ' At Westminster Cathedral, after the service, Cardinal Bourne held a, reception. • ~ ■-' , ~ Sir John M'Oall,' president or the [Australian Na-tives' Association, addressed the Australian troops at the lAnzac Buffet. He said that although our men were making, a record in. ■Prance, it was nothing to what they had done in their great deeds on-Gal-lipoli. . Mr. Seymour Hicks, entertained t a, large number of Australians and New Zealanders at the Princess Theatre.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.- -~ THE HEROES OflhE 29th DIVISION MEMORIAL UNVEILSD BY SIR lAN HAMILTON. London, April 25. Sir lan Hamilton, at the unveiling of a memorial to the 29th Division m Eltham Church, told-how the dinsiore fought incessantly at Gallipoh.; The casualties were over, thrice, its lull strength. The division was still ngtot-. ing in France. No soldiers were more gallant. It was characteristic of them that they did not mention, their own deetfs, but the Anzacs' bayonet charges. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. '