Brewers destroyed 27 British food cargoes, totaling 9000 tons.
The granaries of Canada were crammed with wheat waiting for British ships, but there were no ships to bring this people’s food.
The rum quay at London Docks was crammed with casks of rum to last till 1920, but a ship arrived with 1000 Casks more.
A woman was fined £5 for destroying a quartern loaf.
Brewers were fined nothing for destroying millions of loaves.
Poor people waited in queues to buy sugar in London.
Cartloads of sugar were destroyed in London breweries.
And so we might go on, looking on this picture and on that till the mind almost reels with the solemn farce. The Prime Minister has suggested that the farce does not end because those who demand its end cannot make up their mind. It is the Government that cannot make up its mind.
It tells Parliament that no more rum is to be imported, and goes on importing rum for years ahead.
It forbids the use of spirits less than three years old, and reduces the three years to 18 months.