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Show SAYS BRITISH MAY LOSE BECAUSE OF FOOD SHORTAGE LONDON, March 30, 4:30 p. m. Tn an address at Gloucester today Captain Charles Bathurst, Unionist member of the house of commons; gave warning that there was a possibility that the war would be lost and an ignoble peace agreed to on account of lack of money and food. The scarcity of potatoes, he said, tras no greater than at any time in forty years, and at the present rate of consumption none wouid be available for anyone in about, six weeks. Captain Bathurst said the food controller con-troller contemplated drastic steps to be carried out by means of search warrants, war-rants, unless the "contemptible and unpatriotic practice" of criminal hoarding hoard-ing by individuals ceased. |