Description:A pamphlet entitled ‘Our Food-Supply in Time of War’ by Rear Admiral C. C. Penrose Fitzgerald reprinted from Blackwoods Magazine in February 1903 indicates that inflation caused by a dearth in imported food during wartime was perceived as leading to famine. Penrose Fitzgerald suggests that:
‘The question of, What price can enough food to keep our millions of working men and the women and children dependent on them from starving be put upon the market at is the one to be answered. This will be the first and most urgently pressing problem with which the British Government will have to deal on the outbreak of war.’