Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-02-01 | Page 7 | England Faces Food Shortage

oo ENGLAND FACES FOODJHORTAGE I Correspondence of the Associated Press). Londrm. Jan. 20 While English newspapers continue to feature fea-ture every article, authoritative or otherwise tending to show that Germany Ger-many is suffering from food shortage, the abrupt increase in food prices in Great Britain refuses longer to be concealed and the labor element threatens to bring tho matter before parliament. Bread has increased 50 per cent in price to the consumer. The effect ef-fect of this on tho poor is drastic. As In tho case in the United States when food prices rise arbitrarily all agencies concerned are seeking to pass the blame to come one else. J. C. M. Kerslake, president of the Master Bakers' Protective society, places the responsibility primarily at tho door of speculators. Ship owners own-ers shrug their shoulders when asked about increased freight charges. "The, supply of ships is not equal to the demand," they say, and dismiss the subject, -rvn