The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-01-15
FOOD ISDECOM|NG
SCARCE lNENGLAND
People Stand In Line For Hours
TO Get Weekly Allowances and
III, Often Receive Less

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Tea, sugar, bacon, butter, lard and
other. commodities are. becoming 50
scaree in England that many Of the
people who stand i'm Ilinccfbk ,tsgHsto
secure their weekly family allowance
are often turned away with less than
the usual quantity, writes an English
woman living q sheerncss, Keat, ~
aisletter % Henry A. TayloB iof theI
Hawaiian Trust Go. -
The communieatioB, which deals
with the war generally, is in part as
follows; ifF, Z #E.
1--WE seem to feel the effects Of the
war regarding food more, II IL very
difienlt to yet such things as tea, snr
gar, butter, bacon and lard-tEe week.
" allowance to each family without
reference to the number in the family
Is 2 OF. Of tea, ] ID. sugar and u Id.
butter, and sometimes we cannot get
as much as that. %4 ~. tfta
"The people trowd around the
stores and stand in line for hours to
get these things. IL was impossible
to get fruit for Christmas puddings.
/ did hear Of one store that had some
currants at 42c per h., pre-war price
&c and l2c; butter Is soc, pre.war
price gee; bacon is CSC per h.; canned
pineapple 4Sc, pre-war price lie. The
men in the dockyard get 1915 per
week, war bonus but everything has
gone up in price so much that this
extra money Is very much needed. 1t
is a very hard struggle for people
with large families of children.
Too Cold for Air Raids
awe have had fairly rough time
Of it with air raids and are very glad
the weather is getting too cold for
them to come over. The first raid in
June we had eleven killed and thirty
six injured, but though they have been
over dozens of times since, no more
bombs have dropped to do any mater
ial damage.t,4GG It..a r. .gL"Aa.
."The moonlight raids Of Septem-
Der were very Bad. Night after night
they came; the gunfre was terrible
and incessant. During that time some
bombs were dropped I'M the fields at
Minister, killing nine horses and two
cows, Many people have left town;
some have been away all summer but
are returning for the winter.
| 1--WE are sending you picture
frame made from a fragment of the
wreck of the German Gotha airplane
that I mentioned before-the one that
killed eleven and wounded thirty-six
of our people. The Gotha was brought
down by gun fire and fell into the sea
by the More. One of the two men in
it was dead, but the other, / am told,
is still alive. J
Zeppelin Memento
|. 1--WE also send you a swastika
charm made from aluminnm taken
from the wreck of the German. Yep
lpelin Lis. a 5ss., f.s, 49,. -&......
"we have had several (war) boats
here from america. 2 My husband
Isays: give our address to any, Of your
friends in the " s. Army on Navy
II You think they may come to Eng.
land. We shall be glad to see them.
"Last Christmas day IA year ago)
we had,a party of soldiers in for tea
and supper and l tell you we had a
fine time of it, as most of the soldiers
were musical and enjoyed good
song. In fact it was the beginning of
a series of musical evenings at our
house every Saturday for months;
most of those boys are in France and
they write to us regularly.
/ AZ had three or four soldiers bill
leted with me when the war broke
out, and they are all doing their bit;
some have been wounded, but none
killed as yet. They all say they will
visit us again. do hope they will
come through safe. We had an Ans
tralian soldier here for four days
leave about q month ago. He had been
in France twelve months and was sent
to England with trench fever. He had
such a lot to tell US of the life out
there; it was most interesting. .
Sad Christmas
love hope you had a merry Christ
mas though, one cannot feel very
merry when we think of this terrible
war and the thousands. of lives sacr
feed every day. Christmastide will
be sad time in many, many homes
Still, think we should all be as cheer
full as possible. 1t does one good t.
forget, even for a short time, the hor
rors of war. -