THE FOOD PROBLEM
NEUTRALS FEEL PINCH.
SCANDINAVIAN ACTION.
Press Association —Copyright, Austin- ; | lian r.nd N.Z. Gable Association. I (Received 10.5 a.m.) ! Stockholm, December 3. j The Scandinavian countries are seii-l ously considering the food problem. Prices have risen abnormally in Norway and Denmark and in a lesser degree in Sweden, which has adopted a limited system of food tickets. The maximum prices are now extending owing to the scarcity of butter, flour iand milk, the fixed standard of flour insisting on seventy-five per cent, of . extracted wheat, the penalty being imprisonment for failure to observe j the standard. The State controls the 'grain production of next year. ] j Norway coped with the difficulty by ( [instituting communal provisioning, ithe councils being largely run by women successfully. War food stores have been opened in many centres. j I MMJMMtauiinnwnna—n— I
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 8, 4 December 1916, Page 2
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138THE FOOD PROBLEM Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 8, 4 December 1916, Page 2
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