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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1918
Page
2
The London Economist cites Britain’s debt at 3.68 billion pounds and France and Italy amid rising postwar figures. US war costs exceed half funded by taxes as naval patrols tally vast transatlantic miles. Prisoner of war mail rules and censorship tighten despite Allied cooperation and hospital data efforts. The British meat shortage worsens with milk controls under discussion.
English labor factions back extensions of compulsory rationing to bread cheese and tea. The War Trade Board caps crude rubber imports at 100000 tons yearly and restricts current quarter licenses to 25000 tons through June 31 1918. Rubber use drops by over one third from 157000 tons per year. A hundred women telephone operators are sent to France to support Expeditionary Forces with 150 more in training. Wives of officers and men eligible for duty abroad are not accepted.
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