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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

We are threatened with Food Shortage of a most serious kind. That being so, the Government should surely say : " Not a grain of food shall be turned into intoxicants till that danger is past." Instead they say : " After the 1st of April we will allow the brewers to destroy only seventy per cent. of the foodstuffs they are accustomed to destroy in the manufacture of intoxicants I "

We appeal to those who agree with us that this is fiddling while Rome is burning, to join us in explaining to the people of the United Kingdom what should be our true policy. They will find the way in which they can assist set forth on p.124and p.130. In helping us they will be helping the nation.

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