As for Sir George Cave's picture of soldiers shivering in
the .tenches withouttheir rum, we have not heard' of any serious demand
that they should be deprived of it. We should not support such a demand. Our soldiers have earned and deserve everything Which adds to their comfort. We are glad to learn that practically ne spirits are being produced now for drinking purposes. That is a point to the good. But the brewer's freedom to go on destroying food up to seventy per cent. of last year's output is still secured to him. Sir George Cave had learned from the Food Controller that that moderate curtailment was all that was necessary at present. We should very much like to know, therefore, whether Lord Devon- port disagrees with the speeches of Lord Curzon and Lord Lytton. Will he tell us solemnly that they have yielded to panic, and have overstated the case ?
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