A CIGARETTE FAMINE.
TURKISH StTPPUES FAIT,. ("Sydney Snn" Special Service.) LONDON, July 28. Owing to the trouble in the Balkans, a famine in Turkish-Egyptian cigarettes is threatened. This season's tobacco crops have been destroyed, and there will be no crop next year. The supplies from Greece and Smyrna cannot meet the deficiency. There is also a short supply of Russian cigarettes. Prices have already risen 100 per cent. MGTOR-'BUS OUSTS TRAMCAR. ("Sydney Sim"' Special Service.) LONDON, ~Tuly 2S. To-day at a sitting of the Motor Conference "it was stated that the day of the tramway was over. Tram rails were no longer laid in the large and busy towns.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 179, 29 July 1913, Page 5
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109A CIGARETTE FAMINE. Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 179, 29 July 1913, Page 5
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