SAVE OR STARVE
British Food Controller s Warning.
[ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYIiICIIT.] Ci'Bit tress association.j Received This Day, 11 a.m. London, Dec. 2(5, Sir Arthur Yapp is appealing for specially drrw-tic food 1 economy in the first week of Uhta Xtow Year under the description "S.O.S. week". ("Save or Starve"). "We must show our American friends, who •by their self denial are sending us food, that we are receiving it in the same spirit," he declared. Received This Day, 11 a.m. New York, Dec. 26. Mr Hoover -the American .Food Ctoaroller has made a. statement thai the American sugar famine is due to sending 140,000 tons to the Allies during '1917 as compared, with 300.000 tons 1916. Mr Boovw ad .led: "Oiir stern duty is to Allied ww tries first. ' Sir -Frederick Smith har unwed to dcaLwith the question of the en-aacrip-\jt>n of British subjects living in the United States.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 27 December 1917, Page 3
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148SAVE OR STARVE Levin Daily Chronicle, 27 December 1917, Page 3
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