The harvest in Great Britain is described by Home newspapers as. There is con-although the vigilance of the navy secures an unimpeded flow of wheat from the American continent and elsewhere. Although nearly all the principal Powers in Europe are at war, the price of wheat in England has fallen to forty shillings a quarter now that} the first shock of war has passed. During the Napoleonic wars there was a whole year in which the of wheat averaged 106 shill ings a quarter, and in 1801 it rose to the appalling figure of 156 shill lings. This comparison indicates! the hollowness of the panic in early August over the question of our food supply, and in itself is sufficient answer to those critics who have repeatedly found fealt with the Government's investments' in the navy. If the war is protracted, the price of wheat, no doubt, will increase, but there is absolutely no reason' to apprehend that Britons will starve.
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