Our shipbuilding had gone down disastrously during the last' two
years, but this year we should turn out four times as many- ships as -we slid last year ; in the last two months we should turn- out as many ships-as during the whole of lent year, and next year , we should torn out six times as many ships as last year. As-for- the threat of starvation, he declared that owing to the exertions. of, the Food and Shipping Controllers in the last few months our Medi supply for 1017-1018 had already been secured," subjectto reason- able economy on the basis of the present. consumption, which-must' not he increased." Moreover, we were now making arrangements. for a programme of cultivation that would make the supply oft 1018-1019 secure, even if our shipping lessee grew larger Finally, Me. Lloyd-Geerge. said that we could-make peace with &- free Germany, but we could not make any terms with a .Germany dominated by autocracy.
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