DORA

• what does DORA stand for?


  Defense of the Realm Act
• what were the new laws that DORA put in place?


  censorship, alcohol cut backs, military laws, land use and alien registration
• what was DORA’s new laws on alcohol?

  • Restrictions on what times alcohol could be sold
  • tax on alcohol increased
  • forbidden to open on sundays
• what is DORA?


  a law that allowed government to pass new measures to protect the country during the war

  it became a law on 8th August 1914
• what were the new DORA laws on rationing?


  fixed allowance of sugar, jam, butter, tea and meat were introduced

  fined for allowing rats to invade wheat stores

  fined for producing white flour instead of wholewheat
• what were the new DORA laws on British summer time?

  government moved clocks forward in the summer to maximise working hours in the day

  factories had maximum daylight so they could operate later
• what were the new DORA laws on censorship?


  press censorship was introduced to limit the reporting of war news

  letters from soldiers were also censored
• what were the new DORA laws on land use?


  government took land and used it for farm production to ensure there was enough food to feed the public
• what were the new DORA laws on alien registration?


  .government placed heavy restrictions on foreign nationals living within britain

  people from ’enemy countries‘ were under close watch

  there freedom was limited