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Show FOOD ITS ME HlflGJ ITALY High Cost of Living Also Causing Great Indignation Indigna-tion in England. Declaration Is Made That I Profiteering Is Mainly Re-! Re-! sponsible for Conditions. L-OXDOX, July 20. (Correspondence i of the Associated Press. ) The food riots in Italy aud aiiaiions elsewhere on the continent are J'oeusinjj aftention on tlie continued increase in the voices oi food and clothing in this country. Public feeling, jiuled by protesting let ters to the press and the talk one hears in restaurants ana priato houses, is mounting to the point of extreme ex-treme indi.cnatiou. Newspapers are devotinp much spar a to thib subject and warning the government gov-ernment that unless it takes a"tion to curb profiteering trouble may be e -peeted this winter. Government Aiding. The government's recent announcement announce-ment that its present modified food control Tsould be continued nt least through the winter does not appear to have appeased tho publ'e, a'nd the demand de-mand is widely-made for a return to the strict wartime regulations. There is reat discontent, amon small householders. One writes to a London paper complaining of hiK prices demanded for ejjs, milk and fruit, and declaring: "Those, who buy and sell seem to have none mad in their ' get-rich quick ' cray-e, and their impertinence in what they charge the public is something press. Tho same writer, discussing tho ''extortion ''ex-tortion on clothing,'1 quotes tho announcement an-nouncement made in tho housu of commons com-mons tho other day that the high price of woolen garments is not due to short supplies or gu eminent charges, and that the stocks of wuol in this country arc tho greatest eer luun n. Pertinent Question. "If that is so, ' ' t he wri tor com-meuls, com-meuls, "why are all "woolen goods nt famine prices, and why due a man 't suit of clothes cost anything from eight to eighteen guineas ( tu to Jf'HO) ? Win-is Win-is the profiteering allowed?" The ministry of munitions official, who made the announcement regarding regard-ing wool, said that, the bulk of responsibility respon-sibility for the. high prices of woolen goods lay between the man who makes the cloth and the dealer, lie taid the government "was considering action lo prevcuf profiteering. |