The Kington Times - July 1918
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Kington Times 20th July 1918 - Page 1
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| Date | 20/07/1918 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Kington Times |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 20th July 1918 |
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The actually under was established , tunity as those Volunteer scheme ork on the land vided they volun- ng - up notice and exemption by a ive full publicity THE NORTH HEREFORDSHIRE ADVERTISER AND THE KINGTON TIMES for transinission in the United Kingdom VOL . XI . NO . 617. Registered at the General Post Office as a Newspaper SATURDAY , JULY 20 , 1918 . Free by post per quarter , 1s . 8d . , payable in advance . } PRICE ONE PENNY . Monday Next , July 22 And Following Days . GREAT SALE OF Millinery , Remnants and Oddments . Bon Marche Drapery Co. KINGTON . Ր TION . ASSSINATED Count RUSSIA . " Moscow , ion on the con- and Russia , was otvn men obtained entering his room grenades at the ch from Moscow unt Mirbach in political opments has and are an 1 , who committed wwith the Min- preserting a pet- elegraphed details tructions . - Central ITH GERMAN and firemen of o sail in a ship on it was found origin . This he pon the appoint- vessel is still in Proprietors by 27 , Drapers Lane , Lane , and Leominste KEEP ON MAKING GOOD . MARGARINE IN THE MAKING . COLD STORAGE - AND CHILLY CRITICISM . GERMAN GREED - AND HUNGER . FACTORS IN THE FOOD SITUATION . " EVERY GRAIN OF WHEAT . " JAM V. FRESH FRUIT . KEEP ON MAKING GOOD . Each day the war demands fresh sacrifices from us all - sacritices that must be made without ques tion or delay . Men , money . time , labour - all must be given again and yet again whenever the necessity of the hour demands them . At times we , .who do not quite know what is at stake , find it hard to understand the reason for some of the demands made upon us . If we knew the facts and were able to judge from the wider standpoint , we should be the very first to oller But it is that which we now give grudgingly . not always possible to disclose the whole truth are often to the general public , and so we groping in the dark and are forced to wrong coll- clusions . must left not urgent In these days of grave happenings we guard against hasty judgments . We must imagine , for instance , that because the needs of the war have demanded the uprooting of acres of wheat , the food situation is safe , and no longer requires our efforts . We might as well argue that because some men went to certain death in the storming of Ostend and Zeebrugge , the Navy needs no more recruits . In this great world struggle the sacrifice of life and material is inevitable and unending ; and while we , with our imperfect knowledge , ' may regard some action as wasteful , in reality it is often the only thing to do , and in the end may mean a saving of life , time , and material . There never was a time when it was more im- perative for each one of us to forget all small and personal questions and to keep our minds fixed firmly on the one great issue - the freedom of the world . There has , not unnaturally , been an out- cry because the War Office has been forced to take good farm - land for military purposes . But because this sacrifice has been found necessary , it does not mean that there is no longer any fear of a shortage of food , and that producers may slacken their efforts . On the contrary it should be obvious that we must work all the harder to make up for the inevitable loss . It is undoubtedly dishearten- ing for the farmer to see his season's efforts swept away ; and , looking at it from the personal stand- point , he may be pardoned for arguing that the food cannot be wanted . But he is wrong . The food is wanted and may be much more wanted . At present , it is true , of food there is an abundance of several kinds which a few months ago were unobtainable ; but be just in a few more months these foods may rises and The food barometer as scarce again . falls , and our supplies from overseas are regulated . cannot control . by many things which we The only supply which we can control is that produced at home , and the only certain way to keep hun- ger at bay during the coming winter is for us to produce every pound of food we can . And should the destruc the needs of the war demand even must accept the loss our sacrifice , tion of first - class crops , we as an inevitable part of about making good . " MARGARINE IN THE MAKING . emergency and set the Of the many millions who watch with strained anxiety the desperate struggle for Paris , how many with this dozens would connect And yet the few edible fat called margarine ? who know the facts must be vividly reminded of the last time the Germans bid for Paris - and won . Everyone knows of the misery and famine that reigned in the city during the famous siege ; but few know that the efforts of a French scientist , Mégé Mouries , to find a substitute for butter for the soldiers , led to the production of margarine . And now a scrapings of the butcher ' block and sewage fat was neve rtrue , and was doubtless kept alive by interested parties . It was made in the early days chiefly from refined beef fat obtained from the great slaughter - houses of America . But the supply i of oleo oil - the name given to the animal fat ex- pressed - could not keep pace with the enormous and increase in the consumption of margarine , new raw materials had to be found . Experiments with vegetable oils were so successful that these are now used almost exclusively . Of the total output of margarine now made in Great Britain only 10 per cent . is made from ani- mal fat . We were recently allowed to inspect the largest factory in the world engaged in the manufacture of margarine . The product of this factory is manufactured entirely from milk and nuts . This does not mean the nuts are ground and mixed with milk . From cocoanuts , copra - the dried kernel - is produced , and from this the crude oil is expressed . It is then refined and made ready ' oil , " it is actually for use , and though called the cial , they were walking into Chicago asking to herself with be shipped to England ! " If we could have imported the pigs just when and in such quantities as we , wanted them , the problem would have been comparatively easy ; but in view of the shortage of tonnage and transport troubles , we simply had to take the bacon while we could get it . can imagine what the Ministry of Food was up against when it is stated that the bacon came in with a rush , and what in normal times would represent six weeks ' shipping came into port in one week . One The Ministry of Food from the start has made every possible effort to arrange cold storage ade- quate to accommodate the huge quantities of bacon arriving in this country , and while full use was made of all existing cold storage at the dif- ferent ports of arrival , improvised chilling cham- bers were made by lining cellars and large ware- houses with tin and filling them with blocks of ice . The Ministry of Food is pushing on with the development of cold storage facilities as speedily as the shortage of labour will permit . Upwards of five million cubic feet are under construction , and by the end of the year the total will have grown to forty million . The Ministry of Food has also , in its cagerness the fat , and when pressed from the nut has much the appearance and Substance of lard . Ground nuts - monkey nuts -- and cotton seed are also used , and very good oil is obtained from this source . For convenience in handling , the oil and fat are warmed and brought in liquid form in the to avoid any waste of bacon , called company's own the barges to dock " on premises . " ( A canal has been cut by the firm joining the factory with the waterway to the Thames basin ) . Kept warm by heating coils in the barges , and cork insulation , the oil is pumped into 60 huge aluminium tanks , high up in the building . From this point the nut oil is led through pipes and various process rooms to the churn room , where it meets and is mixed with the milk . This comes from the farms of the West Country . It is handled in the dairy with up - to - date and hygienic every contrivance , is separated , and it is strange to reflect that the butter made from the cream thus obtained is but a by - product in the making of margarine ! The " skimmed " milk is pasteurised and cooled , and then pumped into tanks . Lactic acid cultures , propagated in the incubators of the laboratory , scientists to try to discover an alternative to cold storage . It is true that owing to unavoidable delay at the American ports and to lack of cold storage on some of the trans - Atlantic vessels , some . of the light - cured bacon which arrived lately was or are introduced at the appropriate moment and in the exact numbers required ; and these are an important factor in the production of the best margarine . The churn , emulsifier , now whisps and forces the oil and milk into a yellow emulsion , and this liquid margarine is solidified or crystal- lised by contact with brine - cooled revolving drums . Run out on to these cold drums in thin streams , it settles upon them as a solid substance , and is peeled off by a knife , falling in beautiful flakes : into the aluminium - lined trucks which await it . It has still to be kneaded and blended by special machinery before it takes its final sistency and is ready for packing . Packed in the familiar boxes , it is carried by the gravity con- veyer , which is installed throughout the factory , to the cold storage chambers , where it is chilled before reaching the sidings whence it is distri- buted as required . The six new sidings nearing completion , with the adjacent cold storage , are proof of the provi- sion made by the Government en- firm , with demand couragement , enormous meet the created by the shortage of butter . to Coll- the A most important part of the factory is of analytical experts laboratory , where a staff continually control and test all the raw materials . and the finished product in order to preserve the Each standard of purity and general quality . churning is tested , samples being taken at every period of manufacture . This analysis of materials is carried so far as to include the wood from which the boxes are made ! to teriorated and gone to soap factories . greater conflict has compelled mil- lions of people to take their fat ration And it is due to this scientific care in the con- trol of all materials that margarine is to - day an article of diet of the greatest value , and worthy of the complete confidence of the community . COLD STORAGE - AND CHILLY CRITICISM . The policy of the Ministry of Food in regard cold been storage has denounced by some critics , who allege that on account of inadequate accommodation large quantities of bacon have de- We have the authority of those responsible for the bacon importation to deny this , and in fairness to them the shipping , concerning a few facts we give storage , and distribution of bacon . The pig problem , as the business of bringing bacon from America may be called , has been Pigs or hogs as they are most difficult one . so plentiful dur called in the States - have been ing the last few weeks that , to quote a food offi- in the form of margarine as gladly as did the people of War and the butter shortage Paris 48 years ago . have swept away most of the prejudice and sus- picion with which this product of the factory was milk and The regarded by many . mixture of beef fat and the process by which Mouries manu- factured it , have both been much improved . old rumour that margarine was made from The the a slimy when discharged at British ports , but the percentage discarded was extremely small . The rest , after being washed and properly dried , was in a perfectly good condition for consumption . Bacon used to come packed in borax ; it is now coming harder cured and packed in salt to ensure it arriving in the best possible condition and keeping as long as possible . GERMAN GREED - AND HUNGER . How complete is the failure of the U - boat to disturb the command of the seas held by Britain and the United States is seen by a comparison of the food plenty in the Entente countries with the food difficulties in Germany and Austria Hungary . In Britain though the idea of rationing of any kind of food was strange to the people and was adopted by the Government with some misgiving , the system which was at length applied of issu- ing meat cards , sugar cards , and butter cards was so efficacious in removing equalities of distribu- tion , that all classes of the people freely accepted it , and have been rewarded by being given amounts of these foods which continually increase . uses . In The reserves of wheat in Britain are sufficient to last well past the next harvest ; there is enough meat in cold storage to increase the ration without disturbing the balance of home - bred British cattle ; the very large consignments of bacon sent from United States to Briain , despite all the efforts of the the U - boats to prevent them , have enabled allowance of pork to be increased and so to sup- ply the people with the and necessary fats ; thanks to the importation of the oils which are forbidden to Germany , Britain can now make all the margarine that she a word Britain . has found the way to approach self - support in the provision of food for her population , and can import the balance of her food needs without in- terruption from Germany . On the other hand , the organisation which is the boast of Germany has failed from first to last to cope with food difficulties which should not have arisen . Herr von Batocki , the former Ger- man Food Controller , has lately reiterated the need of holding fast by the rigid system of give to the rationing , the result of which is to German smaller and less masses progressively palatable quantities of bread , meat and potatoes , fats and eggs . Even with this system of rationing he warns the German people that the pillars which support the bridge between them and starvation begin to shake and crack before the harvest . Herr Batocki blames the Anglo - Saxon successful blockade , which indeed has been very . in isolating Germany from supplies indispensable to industries ; but as the German Food Controllers the blame rests chiefly on the know quite well , rottenness of German organisation and the incur- able greed of her landowners and farmers . If Britain which before the war imported her food supplies from everywhere has been able to come within a measurable distance of being self- supporting in food , how is it that Germany with far larger agricultural resources and , before the war , almost within reach of being able to supply i von cereals from within , has been com- pelled to go further down hill every year of the war in supplying her people with sufficient food ? The reason , as Herr von Batocki knows , is that no measures have ever been taken , or ever will be taken , to restrict the consumption of fodder or to interfere with the landowners and farmers in their determination to keep up their stocks of cattle and pigs . their The landlords keep up stocks . because thereby they grasp the greatest profits , and every year the war continues their profits become the greater . A reduction of their superabundant stock would still leave plenty of meat and fat for the German people , and would also leave abundance of grain and potatoes . But the landlords will never take this course during the war because they would lose by it . They support the war and the war supports them . The German people pays for both . FACTORS IN THE FOOD SITUATION . This inspiring message is sent out by the U.S.A. Food Administration , of which Mr. Herbert Hoover is the read : - The policy of the Food Administration has been distinguished by flexibility . This is a virtue that has been thrust upon it by circumstances , " for neither production nor Allied demands are con- be stant factors , nor can any of these factors anticipated for long periods in advance in the disturbed . conditions in which we at present live . " Sharp necessity born of military circumstances rules the changing demands of the Allies ? Along the Western Front a great drive is on , and inevit- ably the ships to France carry more men , less food . The rise and fall in our exports of food is as plain a barometer of the war as is our daily Their meat is low and we must ) cut down our consumption to feed them . Then a series of events accumulates a temporary abundance of meats , wheel and our regulations are relaxed until the comes full circle and it is time to save again . Bread grains are the vital need of the Allies , and our whole attention is for a tinie centred on the acquisition of enough wheat to fill the fatal gap between need and supplies that yawns before Britain , France , and Italy . paper . Even to think that the Food Administration's requirements , regulations , suggestions , and re- quests are constant , unchanging programmes , is to niss the pupose of an organisation which must and does respond to food situations that depend on many and complicated factors . The a war is great restless sea in constant motion and change , swept by every wind . And the boat of food control sailing upon it must go now with the wind , and now against it , must raise and lower its sails from time to time .. Only the rudder of purpose shall not swerve or change . That purpose is to feed our soldiers , our civilian population , and all the vast forces arrayed against autocracy . HARVEST PROSPECTS . WORCESTER , HEREFORD , AND GLOUCESTER . Autumn - sown wheat is looking well and healthy , and appears to have withstood the rather unscaso : 1- able weather better than most of the other crops . Much of the spring - sown , especially on newly- broken - up land , is thin and short in the straw , but good the yield promises on the whole to be a average one . Early - sown barley generally looks well , but the late - sown is suffering , and the yield will probably be nearly 5 per cent . under average . fields Oats are very variable ; whilst some good , others . very poor owing to the damage . It is estimated by wireworm and absence of rain . the crop will be nearly 10 per cent . below Beans , on the whole , look well , and average . though some of the later sown have been attacked by blight the crop promises to be an average one . It is not expected that peas will give an average yield by nearly 5 per cent . The crop is fairly promising . Some of the early picked crops have given light yields . are are the Potatoes are generally good and healthy , but it is feared the crop will be a light one ; at present the yield is estimated to be 5 per cent . below . average . Practically all reports indicate a very small yield for all orchard fruit . The small fruit is some- what better , but everywhere considerably below . The prospects are not so good as a month ago . average . € 168 MILK PENALTY . FIXED PRICES CAUSING DAIRYMEN TO SELL on UP . Two Ramsgate dairy farmers , Charles and Ber- nard Philpott , were Monday ordered by the local justices to pay £ 168 for selling milk to re- tailers at a price above the maximum fixed by the Milk Summer Prices Order 1918 . The prosecution alleged that they sold large quantities of milk at 1s . 7. a gallon instead of IS . For the defence it was stated that a deputation had protested to , the late Lord Rhondda that Kentish dairymen could not possibly produce milk for sale at is . a gallon , and that an advisory committee appointed to investigate the matter had advised the Food Controller in the maximum by 7d . PARLIAMENT OF MAN . " MR . HENDERSON ON THE TASK OF A LEAGUE OF NATIONS . Mr. Arthur Henderson declared on Monday night to a Labour Conference at Stourbridge that or- ganised democracy was determined to make the , League of Nations the great over riding political authority . It required something better than an international assembly of lawyers and diplomatists ; it wanted an international legislature . Labour , he remarked , did not seek to dismember the Central Empires , but to shatter the founda- tions of militarist Imperialism . With that system , he remarked , there could be no compromise . If they did not destroy it , it would destroy them . A peace of reconciliation was a political and economic necessity . May to increase No country could afford the cost of social reconstruction on the grand scale if The defendants were given to understand that the threat of another and war a greater com- that figure would become operative , and with the pelled expenditure on armaments , and the ener- gies of its people were absorbed in acquiescence of one of their principal customers preparation they charged him is . 7d . a gallon , on the under- for another deadly struggle . , For this reason the standing that if the fixed price was not raised the organised working - class movement supported the surplus money paid would be credited to the cus- project of a League of Nations . tomer . Labour desired to This was done when it was learned that no change could be made in the Milk Order .. Well - known farmers stated in Kentish dairy nor Sus- evidence that neither in Kent , Surrey , sex could cowkeepers produce milk at 1s . Many sold or killed their of them had consequently cattle , and others would follow suit . BA FAMINE PRICES IN VIENNA . HARVEST OUTLOOK IN GERMANY . From Stockholm a press correspondent telegraphs that a friend who returned from Vienna a few . days has ago declared that the country . been more or less starving for two years , but its con- dition is now extreme . Owing to their exhaus- tion factory hands are only putting out 30 per cent . of their usual production . The army is starving nearly as bad as the people . in The alarming state of the food situation . Vienna is illustrated in a long telegram published in the " Berliner Tageblatt " from its Vienna correspondent who says : " The laily ations per head have been fixed approximately 3 ounces . of bread and flour substi- tutes , I ounce of meat , not quite one - quarter of an ounce of fat , 2 ounces of potatoes , three - quarters of an ounce of jam , and a quarter of an ounce of war coffee , making a total daily allowance of 7 ounces . Real coffee costs £ 1 175. 9d . per pound , and strawberries 15s . 2d . per pound . " Fashionable Vienna tailors charge £ 33 to £ 40 for a suit of clothes , cloth for ladies ' costumes 11s . to 22s . 6d . per yard , and sandals are worn by those who do not want to pay six guineas to ten Ladies ' hats guineas per pair for leather shoes .. cost £ 6 6s . to £ 8 . 8s . men's felt or straw hats cost from £ 1 58. to £ 2 10s .; shirts , 1 178. 6d .; gloves , 16s . to 25s .; and silk stockings , 1 17s . 6d . Daily necessaries are also very dear . to £ 2 6s . Flour has been officially fixed at 7d . per pound , and the better qualities at 1s . per pound , but it can only be obtained secretly at 18s . to 2ps . per pound . Meat on ration tickets is fixed at 6s . 8d . to 10s . per pound , while for unrationed meat 235 . to 35s . is charged . The price for horseflesh is 14S . per pound , and for geese 30s . per pound . At the middle - class restaurants meals cost 12s . 6d . A usually well - informed correspondent on condi- tions in the Central Empires gives the informa- tion that there has been a complete collapse of the food supply in Austria , compelling Germany to Yet Germany herself can ill- come to her aid . afford to spare anything , for the present time is most critical , and the harvest outlook , owing to June frosts , is bad . No one , in fact , can attempt to live on the legal rations , and additional supplies are obtained by Officials hoarding and illicit trading . and the middle classes are " the most to be pitied . " The women of the lower classes are described as look- ing like ravenous beasts . U BOAT . " TIED UP IN Commons on Dr. Macnamara , in the House of Monday , said the Admiralty had communicated with the officer who publicly related a story of four British seamen tied up to die in a German submarine , but a reply had not yet been received . The Board would take severe action if it found that the statement had no foundation . were see the representatives of every civilised State meeting together to discuss and to legislate on the common interests of all States . It wanted to see built up a body of in- ternational law , to bring foreign policy under the control of popularly elected assemblies , and to put an end to the system of secret diplomacy . The common people had been bartered rom Sovereignty to sovereignty without The muddles and blunders of the old system of diplomacy had brought death into their homes . If it was left to that system to settle the terms of peace , its muddles , and blunders might mean the slaughter of their remaining sons , and perhaps of their sons ' sons . This was why Labour had united to end this system . consultation . NEED FOR ECONOMY . FOOD CONTROLLERS MAY BE NECESSARY AFTER THE END OF THE WAR . Mr. Clynes , addressing the Canadian newspaper representatives who paid a visit to the Ministry of Food , stated that although conditions , thanks largely to the assistance rendered by Canada , hud greatly improved , and while the submarine had been powerless to prevent food supplies reaching our shores , there was still need for economy in food consumption in all Allied countries . It was probable that even if the war ended in the immediate future , Food Controllers would con- tinue to be a necessary evil or advantage , accord- ing to the view of the individual , long after hos tilities ceased . ALLEGED BACON WASTE . Bristol Food Control Committee on Monday de- cided again to approach the Ministry of Food with reference to the large quantity of ham and bacon that was spoiling owing to lack of cold The chairman pointed out that they had . already asked the Ministry to receive a deputation of the wholesale trade , but the Ministry had told them not to send a deputation until the matter had been discussed and a decision arrived at by the Ministry . storage . AUSTRIA'S ' ORIENT CORPS . Rome . The " Tribune " learns from a reliable source that a short time ago the Austrian mili- tary authorities organised and equipped Special army corps destined to go to the assistance of the Turks in Palestine . This corps was known as the " Orient Corps " and was composed of three divisions of 12,000 men cach . On the came eve of its departure for Palestine , however , the news of the Austrian defeat on the Italian front , and the " Orient Corps " was hurriedly despatched to the Piave line , where , in the space of less than a week , it almost completely wiped out . Several thousands of the corps are now prisoners in Italy , many thousands of others were killed and wounded , and the corps third of its original now possesses only about a strength . was Prisoners from the " Orient Corps say they . They never expected to have to fight in Italy . were looking forward to taking part in a " cru- sade " in Palestine , and each division had been specially blessed by a Bishop . In this special , corps were numerous Princes , Barons , and Counts , many of whom have found a grave in the Piave marshes . |