Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-01-06 | Page 18 | [Illegible] Beef Ply Short

r h r I I ENGLISH BEEf BEE F I II I I i SUPPLY Y SHORT i p I Consumption to Be Reduced One-half One Chief Foods Fools toBe to toBe toBe Be Rationed Rational I I r London Jan 5 Until 5 Until tho the situation I Improves tho the consumption of or beet boef in England bust must be bo reduced reduce at nt least cast one- one I L half haJt according to an official statement concerning the scarcity of or meat All AU tho the chief foodstuffs It adds will be rationed by bJ AprIL I Throughout London today lines JInes of oC Sri persons desirous to buy ea eagerly com cont- for tor the limited lilted supply of oC meat ment which tho the retailers were able to pro pro- I t cure Many shops especially In to th l t west end did not open as they ha hano had 1 no meat to offer otter Others had laid 1 In stocks of at rabbits which found a read ready sale at 75 cents centa to a dollar donar each Smithfield market except for Cor a few scraps was bare and many large larg wholesalers reported a total absence of supplies Extraordinary scenes scene were witnessed at nt the Smithfield market early this morning Hundreds of oC butchers drove up in n carts and motors and competed compete for Cor the limited supply of or Decd beed and mut mut- ton There were free tree rt In tights fights man many places and the wholesalers had to sU sus sus- pend Pond business owing to the press fo for tor supplies which were 40 10 per cent less Jess than the demand 7 Ounces Ounce IM loe Ureal II Ration Washington ton Jan Only Onh 6 Only the very poor and men and women doing the tho hardest kind of oC manual labor Jabol ma may have I more moro than seven ounces of or war bread aI a ai I day in France tram from now on the food i administration has been I advised by I tho French government The entire t French wheat crop has hns been requisitioned by the government 1 This has been accepted b by the French people uncomplainingly on the time governments government's explanation that only b by such I restriction can cnn American rein I be bo transported In ships I that otherwise would cart carry grain for fOI em their bread blend and that in addition this grain for French bread d can come coin from tram Amerl America a anI only by virtue of the actual raving ra of this grain by reduced consumption con Con- of oC bread brend by the tho American people These extremely t severe I measures said Bald trio the French statement especially I the seven se ounces a day havo have deeply Impressed public opinion Men Ien who vho are arc very Po poor r or do hard manual labor get about twenty on ont q tunes tune's of oC bread brend a day women who are Vcr very poor or 01 who are employed on hard I work vork get et about seventeen ounces a n I ray gay a everyone else gets Acts seven ounces I which la is less Jels than half a n pound loaf leaf or orI j I not than four or five slices This bread Is made of flour ComI comprising com com- all nIJ the elements clements I of or wheat ex- ex cep rcpt bran with a n heavy hen admixture 0 of flour Jour from other cerea cereals tt which hc I t is obI ob- ob I Tho Tiro price of at bread Is fixed I b bv by various government agencies all along the line between producer and consumer Baking o of or pastry or biscuits from I flour that Is fit tit for tor bread Is prohibited 1 I Confectioneries and other such shops I are closed two days a week Eating pastries In public is Js forbidden