Excerpt from The War Garden Victorious Then came the submarine, further to complicate matters. By hundreds of thousands of tons the world's shipping was sent to the bottom of the sea, so that in a short time the food situation wore an entirely new aspect. No matter what mountainous piles of proven der might accumulate in the distant parts of the earth, it was not available for the nations at war. Ships could not be spared for long and distant voyages. If the people of the Entente nations were to have food, if they were to ...
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Excerpt from The War Garden Victorious Then came the submarine, further to complicate matters. By hundreds of thousands of tons the world's shipping was sent to the bottom of the sea, so that in a short time the food situation wore an entirely new aspect. No matter what mountainous piles of proven der might accumulate in the distant parts of the earth, it was not available for the nations at war. Ships could not be spared for long and distant voyages. If the people of the Entente nations were to have food, if they were to procure enough to keep them from actual starvation, that food must come from the nearest markets. Only by sending their ships back and forth from these markets, back and forth like shuttles in a loom, could food be transported rapidly enough to keep this great population from starvation. Prior to the war England had produced but one-fifth of her own food supply, France one-half of hers, and Italy two-thirds of what she consumed, and now their home production was fearfully decreased. The nearest possible markets where food could be produced were in North America, and principally in our own country. Thus the burden of feeding the Entente fell very largely upon the United States. Whether we wished to undertake the task or not, Fate had saddled the burden upon our backs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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