Cave letters, 1915-1919 / Harrie Joseph Cave - Page 784

<p>a4701785.html</p><p>5./&nbsp;&nbsp; is the only solution to the problem of feeding for the masses - rich as well as poor.&nbsp; Many glaring cases of sinful hoarding have been revealed since the prohibition-order became due which gave those unscrupulous rotters the opportunity to surrender all food over &amp; above the regulation issue, for which they&#39;d been paid &frac12; cost.&nbsp; The surrendered food was then distributed amongst the &quot;civvy&quot; Hospitals.&nbsp; Despite the warning of what the consequences would be for defaulters, the police - courts revealed bad cases every day.&nbsp; &quot;Aussie&quot; can consider herself the most 4tunate of combatant countries as she has suffered economically almost nil - in contrast to all those up here.&nbsp; It&#39;s a terrible pity that those 3 Harvests of cereal have had to lie idle &amp; rot, all for want of sea-tonnage, but it all has to be &amp; we cannot grumble.&nbsp; God&#39;s will be done!</p><p>It was strange for a time for us to be getting Jam in cardboard containers in lieu of tin, but we are used to that novelty now.&nbsp; The great demand for tin has made it necessary to economise in that direction.&nbsp; I might mention that our ration of Jam is usually about 14 men to a 2lb. Tin every alternate day, so they are not wasting too much for men in the Line.&nbsp; We dream wild dreams of a time that may yet come to us again, way back in the Land of Sunshine &amp; plenty, but it all vanishes when our broken sleep finishes &amp; we hear the eternal thunder of guns in our midst.</p><p>An A.I.F. order has just appeared relating to service stripes which will dispel a</p>