Show BRITAIN GIVEN OIVEN FOOD WARNING LONDON Dec 11 R. R P R. R S S. S Hudson minister of ot agriculture declared Wednesday that Britain's food situation was just as grim grimas as it was during the difficult World war days of 1917 Hudson told a Farmers Farmers' club in London that the British navys navy's task of defeating the German coun coun- ter-blockade ter of submarines and long distance bombers was now doubly or trebly as difficult as then Urging the farmers to increase home production Hudson said the situation Wednesday is just as grimas grim grimas as when Mr Lloyd George then prime minister started his intensified intensified intensified food production campaign in 1917 Feminine Labor LaborThe LaborThe The government he added is Nis trying to adjust production so as asbo asto as to bo produce foodstuffs that will wIIl keep the people healthy as well wel as alive He said that farm labor would have to contribute to the steadily Increasing demands of the armed services and that apart from conscientious conscientious conscientious con con- objectors sent to the farms any additional labor would have to be female The same situation was debated in the house of lords There Lord labor peer declared that Britain's convoy tern tem heeded needed overhauling and Lord Templemore predicted energetic measures by the navy and air force which he asserted would counter effectively and defeat the nazi threat Situation Serious declared that the situation situation situation situ situ- was serious senous but not desperate desperate desperate des owing awing to a large accumulation accumulation accumulation ac ac- of stores and because of heavy cargoes which have come through unscathed Lord Templemore expressed confidence confidence confidence con con- that as our material resources resources resources re re- sources increase there is no doubt that the royal navy and air force will be able to counter effectively and defeat the serious senous menace to our seaborne trade |