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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) (about)
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WORLD'S FOOD SHORTAGE
EFFECT IN GREAT BRITAIN.
King Sounds Warning
LONDON, Sept. 21.
Thc British 1 ood Controller (Vxanl Rhondda) states that Great Britain's mini
mum foodstuff requirements from the United States and Canada for tlie ensuing 12 monlliH would cost £230 OOO.COO, the bulk of which would be expended m cereals sugar and meat \ special mission of ex perta was being sent to New York to create a permanent organisation, which would huidle the purchases An arrangement bid been made for the purchase of the P esent Cuban sugar crop, ind America hav. also agrcetl not to be a competing buyer _i tlie
Java market
'The danger of the food situation," added Lord Rhondda, "lies less In the submarine peril than in the world's food shortage "
His Majesty the King, on leaving the West of Scotland at the end of his to ir of the Clyde district, said that the securing of Great Britain's foot! supply could not be taken ns a matter of course The main ob- ject of lus tour was to »bow interest ia the efforts of the shipyard and steel mill cm plojecs to maintain the strength and edict
ency of the mercantile marine, on which the country's existence depends
Whisky Pnoes Eise
Owing to the stoppage of distdlation and Hie restrictions on clearances of spirits from bond, whiBky is realising cxtr irdin arv prices Well known brands fetch 1140/ per dozen at luction in London on hiirs day vv hieb compares with the pre u ai an e of 42/ per dozen Some Irish hulk, six degrees undci proof, sold at 113/ pet gul
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Position m America
1 he 1 ood Controller in the United States (Mr H C Iloovci) has warned a 'rnfci ence of business men that socialism ma) be the penalty it ciuplo)ers do not lealise their war responsibilities and co operate with the Government
Starvation 'in Austria.
Bussian Prisoners Left to -Hie.
News comes through Geneva that li tin dretls of Ii unman prisoncia in Austria ore dying daily of starvation The docto .» no longer visit the camps, declaring that lood w the only remedy, and it is not pneur
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