The question of food storage as partial solution to Britain's depend fence on sea-borne supplies during wartime is receiving serious con sideration in responsible circles. The British Isles produce relatively tittle of the food consumed by man and beast. Every year 70 por cent. of wheat, 50 per cent. of meat and cheese and'80 per cent. of butter must be imported together with the Breater part of the country's sugar and animal feeding stuffs. "Menaced by submarine attacks, serious inroads were made into food' supplies during the war, but although methods of combatting submarines have greatly Improved future hostilities will undoubtedly produce as serious a threat from aircraft. A' writer in the "Spectator" makes the suggestion that to" minimize the threat starvation "and to decrease the Urgency of punctual arrivals of food ships, a vast system of storage should be introduced. Tuking wheat for an example, he points out that there are storage facilities for 1,800,000 tons. available at various ports but only. 215000 tons are in store. Larger Quantities are held at country mills and bakeries and with a total annual consumption of roughly 7,000,000 tons available storage resources were utilized three or four months supply would be assured without recourse to new elevators. Applying the same argument to sugar and maize, the maintenance of six months' supplies would not cost more than the price of a single cruiser and yet would have an tremendous effect on. the Jnational system of defence. Those who remember the rigours of foodless days in the last war will be in full agreement with the writer,
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