Captain TERRELLasked the Secretary of State for War whether any settled policy exists in the matter of giving preference to food and manufactured commodities of home production required for consumption by troops serving at home?
§ Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANSThe policy of the War Office is to give a preference to home production, but in the case of food supplies, the production of which at home is inadequate to meet the needs of the population, it is not possible to carry out this policy in its entirety.