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Show ENGLAND FEELING EFFEGIBLOCKAOE STOCK OF FOODS IN GREAT BRITAIN BRIT-AIN LOWER THAN EVER BEFORE. Prime Minister Declares Success of Allies Depends on the Ability to Solve the Tonnage Shortage and to Hunt Out Submarines. London. David Lloyd George, the British - prime minister, on Friday presented to the house of commons in a speech lasting an hour and a half his program for coping with the serious situation arising from the shortage of shipping space, depletion of food stocks and the German submarine sub-marine menace. The premier advocated the increase of home food production and the curtailment cur-tailment of non-victual imports. To this end he outlined a plan for speeding speed-ing up the farmer by guaranteeing good prices for commodities over a period of years. This he supplemented supplement-ed by announcement that the land owner would be forced to cultivate his land. Premier Lloyd George said that the success of the allied cause depended on the ability to solve the tonnage shortage, which was now affecting the ordinary needs of the nation and military exigencies. The situation, he declared, called for the gravest measures. The stocks of food In Great Britain at the present time are lower than they ever have been before, Mr. Lloyd George said. It was essential for the life of the nation, he declared, that every possible effort be made to Increase In-crease home production. By curtailment of lmpo ts Mr. Lloyd George said he expected to reduce re-duce the demands on cargo space by several million tons. Foodstuffs, of which 16,000,000 tons were imported last year, will be cut nearly a million tons by loppintr off certain luxuries. |