FOOD SHORTAGE IN ROUMANIA.
The correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph describing' conditions in Bucharest, says:—The discontent due to the increased cost of lack in particular of meat, poultry, eggs, fat, and certain qualities of grain and (lour. This is due to the great amount of smuggling being carried on by German agents, with the connivance of bribed guards at (he frontier. M. Take Jonescu moved in the Chamber to have a Parliamentary inquiry to fix responsibilty for the smuggling Ira the. The Home Secretary, M. Mortzun, admitted that there was a great traffic in contraband goods, but opposed the idea of an inquiry by Parliament at the present time. The Chamber thereupon requested the Minister for Justice to institute a judicial inquiry. The danger of a. popular outbreak is not to bo excluded because there is serious discontent. The Government wilt have to take urgent and energetic measures. to deal with holders of monopolies and to stop smuggling. Several Bills with this object have already been adopted. A law has been passed preventing increase of rents.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1571, 1 July 1916, Page 4
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177FOOD SHORTAGE IN ROUMANIA. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1571, 1 July 1916, Page 4
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