RATIONING LONDON.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1918, Page 5

RATIONING LONDON.

LONG QUEUES FORMED. Times Service, Received February 25, 8 p.m. London, Feb, 24. The experiment of rationing London's ten million inhabitants is starting tomorrow, and is anxiously awaited. Long queues are securing the necessary tickets and there were also enormous queues throughout the day at butchers and grocers, endeavoring to increase their stix-ks before rationing becomes effective. SPECIAL ALLOWANCE FOR SOLDIERS. CASE OF HEAVY WORKERS. Received February 20, ].30 p.m. London, .Feb. 23. In connection with the rationing scheme, the problem of soldiers on leave has been satisfactorily solved by a special meat ration of ei.siit ounces daily. It is found impossible to allow heavy workers a bigger ration without unduly re- ! strieting the whole population, but an | ;id(litiunal allowance to heavy workers is regarded as the first necessity, when supplies increase. PARTY POLITICS. MR. ASQI'ITH OX LIBERAL INDEPENDENCE Received Feb. 25, 11.40 p.m. London, Feb. 25. Mr. Asquith, addressing the Liberal party's agents on the necessity for preparing for a general election when the new register, doubling the number of voters, was completed, said that the Liberal party was not going to be obliterated, or to merge its identity in the new embryonic political combination. Its continued independent activity was never more necessary, as the multiplied and complicated problems of peace reconstruction would soon confront us. CRUELTY OF ! TURKSI TO BRITISH PRISONERS. ' London, Feb 24. Australian wounded men repatriated from Turkey endorse the stories of the cruelty of the Turks to prisoners, and flatly contradict the statement that (lie Turk is a clean fighter. The usual punishment for petty crime is to vie the prisoners head downwards, while their feet are lashed with rawhide whips. The treatment in Austria, where the Australians stayed some weeks, was heaven compared with Turkey. One returned man declared that the Hermans in Turkey were the prisoners' onlv friends, possibly because the Turks hate the Hermans, and vice versa. The Germans regard the w'hitcs as a vie between themselves and the Fatlirland. MORE MEN" FOR NAVY. Times Service. Received Feb. 25, 11.40 p.m. London, Feb. 25. The navy estimates provide for an additional 111,000 men. NATIONAL RTFLE ASSOCIATION. London, Feb. 24. The Prince of Wales lias accepted the presidency.of the Notional Ri„e Association PRIORITY FOR F0 IMPORTS. London, Feb. 24. The Observer states that the War Cabinet has decided that food imports shall now have priority over all other war demands in allocating shipping.