28 JULY 1917, Page 2

The confident optimism with which Mr. Lloyd George spoke of

- the submarine question' Is hard to reconcile with the =maga of Mr John dallicot and Sir Bdocartrearson tb-tha mon in but alarpyardir sod workshops, on which weconunented last week. Again, in spite of his reservation, the references to our food supplies give too little encouragement to economy. We have readily acknewledged the valuable services rendered by Mr. Kennedy deems- but to interpret his resignation of the post of Dinsotor-General of Food Economy an implying that the need for a vigilant supervision of food con- sumption no longer existed—as some papers have done—is the height of improvidence.