Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-01-24 | Page 4 | Food Shortage in England is Serious

FOOD SHORTAGE ENGUNDJSSER10US British Food Controller Asks U. S. for 75,000,000 Bushels More Wheat. LOXDOX. Jan. 23. Great Britain calls upon the United States for 75,1(00,000 bushels more wheat. This was one of the most important statements which Lord Rhondda, the British Brit-ish food controller, made in an interview inter-view with tiie Associated Press today. The controller described the food shortage in Great Britain as most serious, but not such as would be detrimental to the health of the population with proper management man-agement of supplies. He drew a sharp distinction between the conditions in Germany, Ger-many, where the public health, particularly particu-larly that of women and children, had been dangerously undermined by lack of nutrition and semi-starvation and where the working effectiveness of the men had been decreased SO per cent, and in Great Br-italn. In Britain, he said, the self-denial self-denial thus far practiced had actually Improved the physical condition of the nation. "With the help of the United States we shall pHll through," he declared, "1 would feel very despondent over the position po-sition if the United States had not come into the war, but I have unbounded faith in your ability and good will to help us work out the problem. "The war will be won by England. It is a test of endurance between England and Germany. We are today where Ger-manv Ger-manv was two years ago. I have no fear of failure on the fighting line."