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Show EVEN THE PREMIER IS HIT Only Allowed Six Gallons of Gasoline s Month by New Restrictions. Re-strictions. In Finglnnrt the prlvute motorist la no longer allowed to use gaaotlM freely. free-ly. So much Is nedod for mllitury purposes thnt the now rest rlct ions nre severe. I Huh nnil low nre being treat-til treat-til ullke, niul It Is, perhnpH, some con-solntlon con-solntlon to the orilinnry motor enr owner own-er to know thnt the prime minister nnd the speaker of the house of I'oinmons nre allowed only six millions of petrol a month. Mr. I.owther, the spenker, eon- not dream of motoring ns usual to Penrith, nnd Mr. Asqulth will be hnrd put to It to run down to his Berkshire Berk-shire home for a week-eml. Mr. As-quit As-quit h, however, rnrely uses his cur In town, ami enn be seen uny evening, unescorted and almost unnoticed, trolling from the Uoiise back to Downing Down-ing street. As for the speaker, one dny recently recent-ly b traveler on the top of a South London tramear bound for Westminster Westmin-ster observed amonK his fellow-passengers the picturesque figure of Right ,.. . Hon. J. W. I.owther, Immuculately clad In a suit of summer gray, with 11 white top-hat. Next to him wus n carpenter, carpen-ter, burdened with the Implements of his trade. |