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Taihape Daily Times, 11 February 1918, Page 3

WHAT FOOD TICKETS HAVE DONE FOR GERMANY. jA.t the Corn Exchange Sir A. Yapp told the members that Britain might have to choose whether a liner was to;' bring wheat or to carry American troops People who were now clamouring for food tickets would very shbrtly be demanding that the people wfyo introduced them should be hanged' on the nearest lamp-post. Compulsory rationing in Germany had had a .demoralising effect. There were ICW different kinds of tickets in Munich i .. alonej and 700 officials in the local office, and the system had the effect of turning the whole German nation into a nation of forgers In the first month there were more than 6,000,000 forged tickets. He said the British .public must consider the significance .of the-cumulative effect of the U-boat warfare. He had been looking into the figures and when he saw them in black and white he was appalled. He -asked the people earnestly to .tighten ifheir belts and walk along the-line of self-sacrifice. Food was ■going ; to win the war, and famine iimight bo the arbiter.

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