The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-10-14
Rumblings Threaten British
Government; Food Scarce as
Bacon RIOTS on Waterfront
After Nearly Year of Peace Population of Great Britain to
Go On Rations On Meat Butter and Sugar-Expenses
Double Revenue

Labor Gazette and are for the type
II articles the British warkingman
ordinarily consumes They are fig
ured in American money at the nor
nal rate of exchance0
But that is not all Under the ra-
ton system one is allotted much less
coal than a British family is accus-
somed - use, so that II IL Is a Sc
we're winter the British people will
suffer keenly.
Cards Don't Make Good.
And, notwithstanding families win
have meat and butter and sugar ra-
ton cards, II viii be another thing
n cash them in d" The butcher is
likely TO say ne is very sorry but,
notwithstandi ing YOU are entitled to
the meat, he has no meat 70 sell you
That at feast, was the experience IN
Great Britain during the war II is
n fact. already the condition re
srecting butter and sugar Margarine
buffers" most folks bread
Premier Orders Retrcnchment.
II was the growing discomfort with
this condition that alarmed Lloyd
+ George the other day TO the point
where he sent an emergency mes
/ sage from his vacation in Deauville
France, perenlptorily ordering the
+ penses. even to the extent Of stop
ping work on Great Britain's most
glorious institution--the navv-and
scrapping the am bilious aircra II
program.
The great British labor congress tn.
Glasgow, too-represenuns S, 600 900
workerS---while il was overth row -
ing by an overve helmine vote the
governments coal reform schemes
and demanding nationa lizat5on Of the
coal mines was planning TO- insist
upon the immediate cessation Of the
Russian campaign. The government
learned this and. alarmed by the at
titude of labor and the accumulated
criticisms of the press. Churchill
head OF the war office. put out =
very vague statement promising in a
way 70 withdraw British troops from
Russia
Blow to Governing Class
This was indeed a blow to the gov
erning class in Great Britain, who
have been accustomed to maneuver
for the, wide wide world with the as
surance that the pride of the British
Empire was behind them but wha
have Just lately discovered that the
producers in he British Isles are not
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