HOUSE OF COMMONS.
THE CONTRABAND LIST
BEER OUTPUT REDUCED
(Received April 6; 1.45 p.m.).----•yDNDON, April 5. " In the House of Commons, replying to questions, Lord Robert Cecil said that as the wur progressod.it bt---came, clear, that th> list of contrabana must be extended. He proposed,to add a large number of aTticles imine--jdia'tely. • - ' ■ Mr liuntiman. announced that from April Ist tho. output of beer vvoulct he reduced 28 per cent., compared with 1913-14. X. Bill to give this effect wjoukl.be; introduced next week. ■ The reduction is equivalent to r&etriction of browing, imports about--33a per cent. ; ' .
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Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 82, 6 April 1916, Page 8
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