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Show FOOD TO BE SCARCE UNTIL NEXT AUGUST LONDON. Feb. 2. Post master General Gen-eral Illingwonh predicts that England will have difficulty in obtaining food until un-til next August, but after that, he said, there would be an improvement, which would be steady and continuous, for the shipbuilding position was improving very rapidly and was very marly, though not quite, equal to the losses the country was suffering from submarines. "Before very long." he added, "our efforts ef-forts alone would have overtaken the position, po-sition, and our tonnage would be increasing. in-creasing. Besides, American shipbuilding is beginning to be felt and in the course of the next month or two the output of American and British shipping will be considerably more than the submarines are sinking. Our position !s verv much better than that of Germany, where the people are almost on the brink of starvation." |