Ffeil 3210. - Written at 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, S.W. Just ordered the cutting down of beer & spirits by 30 p.c. on ...,

Written at 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, S.W. Just ordered the cutting down of beer & spirits by 30 p.c. on the 1915 standard - that is equivalent to 50 p.c. on pre-war basis'. 'The Labour victory at Manchester is the event of today. Asquith & his friends had been bragging that Labour was against me. I got a bigger majority than he did for his Ministry. It helps enormously in many quarters'.