On This Day, 17 May 1918

Evening Despatch

Friday 17 May 1918

GERMAN PRISONERS GET THE CHEESE.

The Stourport Food Control Committee were considering the question of cheese shortage, especially with regard to the expected large influx of visitors from the Birmingham district during the Whitsuntide holidays, when a Labour member declared that it was monstrous to learn that the German prisoners who had come into the district were allowed double the quantity of cheese which was rationed to the ordinary householders.

Cartloads of cheese had been taken to the establishment where the German prisoners were kept, and there were still cartloads left at the railway station to be transferred, while householders were unable to get any supply.

The executive officer said he had done his utmost to get a supply of cheese for the people.