BEET SUGAR
EUROPE'S SHORTAGE
Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.
BERNE, January 21.
(Received January 24, at 9.25 a.m. )
A Swiss expert predicts that the beet sugar crop in Europe will be an almost complete failure in 1919-20, owing to the workmen on the largo estates in Germany and Hungary striking and leaving the beets to freeze in the ground. It is unlikely that tho production in the Ukraine will suffice even for local requirements, aa the peasants, who have now become landowners, have abandoned intensive cultivation.
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Evening Star, Issue 16950, 24 January 1919, Page 6
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89BEET SUGAR Evening Star, Issue 16950, 24 January 1919, Page 6
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