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Show UH SEISE PBS TRIBUTE TO BJBH1 Gives Food Administrator Credit for Saving Large Number of People in Europe From Want, PREMIER ISSUES ANOTHER WARNING Tonnage Question Looms ., V Up as America Sends More and More Men to Front in France. LONDON, Thursday, July 25. The government gov-ernment gave a dinner this evening in honor of Herbert C. Hoover, the American food administrator; Victor Boret, French minister of provisions, and Dr. Silvio Crespi, Italian food minister. J. R. Clynes, the British food controller, con-troller, who presided, said that, owing to assistance trom the United States, bacon and ham hereafter would be sold without coupons. He referred to Mr. Tloover as a man who "could deliver the goods." Premier Lloyd George paid a glowing tribute to Mr. Hoover. He said that through him America had achieved a great triumph in securing a large number num-ber of people in Europe from want and Starvation. There was now no fear-whatever, fear-whatever, ho declared, that the allies would be starved out. Question of Tonnage. After comparing Great Britain's abundance abun-dance of food with Germany's scarcity, Premier Lloyd George said he regretted the necessity for bringing in a warning as a skeleton at the feast. ' Jt was not altogether a question of food it was a question of tonnage. America was sending send-ing hundreds of thousands of men monthly. It was a great and valiant army which already had appealed in great numbers on the battlefield and had added fresh laurels to those crowning the brow of the American republic. More were coming, and next year it would be a gigantic army, and it was a question of bringing supplies for that army. This would absorb more tonnage than carrying the men themselves. A merica was building ships at a great rate and er program was a great success. Great jrfPTritain also was building as fast as she yfi could, but, in addition to building, she ' .-"'lad to keep her gigantic fleet repaired t itid most of the repairs to American ships must be done in Great Britain. Conse-k Conse-k quently, there was a limit to the number Sll , ol ships which could be turned out. Demand Increasing. While the number of ships was Increasing Increas-ing enormously, the premier continued, Die demand on shipping was greater, and (he essential need of economy in food and every other commodity must be kept firmly in mind. "We are learning many things in this war. When it began wo were foreigners lo each other. "We shall never meet as foreigners again. We tulk to eacli other now as though we were old friends and we are beginning to discuss things as I hough we were members of the same cabinet. There is a common cause, a common table, a common larder and a common coal cellar. We are making shipping ship-ping common as far as possible. "From the common struggle and common com-mon sacrifice we shall have a common triumph and a common brotherhood, which will be the surest guarantee of peace on earth and good will among men of all races, creeds and nationalities to the end of time." Mr. Hoover said that the only problem prob-lem now was that of ships, and that that problem had been helped greatly by the solution of the food problem, adding: "I am happy to say that food supplies are assured for the period of the war and 3 do not think it necessary to estimate for more than two years hence. n less than two years the result will be victory." |