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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 145, 13 July 1901, Page 4

Acting, it may be presumed, under instructions, Captain Stewart H. Murray, of the Gordon Highlanders, has supplied Lord Roberts and Mr. Broderick with figures and facts showing how long, under present conditions, England could resist a blockade, assuming the fleet to be temporarily beaten, 1 It is hardly nectseary to state that at present no internal organisation exists to secure proper quantities and utilisation of food so that the countiy might not bj starved into submis ion, There "e, besides, no reserves of f< odatuffa apart from these in the army stores, which would be required by the soldiers, and there are no naoiornl granaries. Lord Wolseley, it is said, believes that the swift steamprs wou'd bring plenty of food in such a crisis, and it is difficult to believe, as some apparently do, that the blockade would be so rigid as to meke tbis imp s-ible, ti.some extent at least; but it must be remembe ed that Russia wou'd probably stop supplying England altogether, and the United States might put up the price of their products to an planning extent, while the contributions from the co'onies, even if they could be landed, would be but a drop in the bucket of England's needs. As to the Home stccks, Captain Muri <y, writing at the beginning of the yea<*, found that England would have of crop and merchants', millers', and farmers' stocks about 12,600,000 quarters of breadstuffs available; the whole live stock, including breeding animols, wou'd yield 3,290,000 tons ; potatoes, 5,035,200 tons; oats, 93,000,000 bushels ; barley, 45,670,000 bushels ; ma'ze, 500,000 quarts) s. Against this, as the Daily Mail pointed out, the aunual consumption of breadstuffs is 29,000,000 quarters; of meat, 2,180,000 tons; cf potatoes, 5,035,000 tons ; of oats, 198,000,000 bushels; and of barley, 116,143,000 bushels. If the blockade were established at the present date, it is estimated the breidstuffs would last seven months, the meat a year, po f itors a year, and the oats until next harvest. Captain Murray has gone still more deeply into the matter. He has urged that the establishment of a fcod supply department, from the nueleus of which could be immediately evolved, in case of necessity, aa organisation capable of taking over and distributing in siege rations the whole available food supply of the country. By this system the food could be made to last much longer tban would otherwise be the cise. The cost would beh-avy, bat infioitesinaally ltss tban if Great Britain were starved into submission, and it would relieve the fleet from the necessity of p otecting steamers bringing ford, and release many vessals for offensive operations. Captain Murray also urges the establishment of State granaries, with a wheat reserve of 12 million qu»rters, a wheat reserve in the hands of subsidised merchants, millers, and farmers, and an acreage bounty for wheat-rais-ing. But fiisfc in impoitance stands the Food Supply Dapaitment, the scheme of which bap, it 's taid, been r ceivibg much attention from the military chiefs.

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