WAR EFFORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1942, Page 3

WAR EFFORT

TIGHTENED UP IN BRITAIN ACTION TO CRUSH BLACK MARKET. RESTRICTIONS ON THE USE OF PETROL (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, February 26. Evidence is already accumulating of the more austere war effort which Sir Stafford Cripps demanded and promised. A further drastic cut in the netrol ration is being announced shortly to eliminate all motoring except for urgent and important purposes. Sporting fixtures may be limited to one day a week. A banning of car-parks and a further reduction of the permissible minimum attendances at sports meetings is also expected and all sport will possibly be zoned to reduce travel. The Home Office, Ministry of Food, and Board of Trade are combining to crush the black market, and the Government is evolving a plan to inflict heavier penalties. The Board of Trade is employing “detectos,” who will infiltrate and expose black marketers. The Board of Deputies of British Jewry has organised a nation-wide campaign to trace black marketers. Its president, Professor Selig Brodetsky, urging the Government to increase penalties, declared: “Any Jew who commits such an offence brings contempt on the Jewish name.”