CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4011, 10 June 1920, Page 6

CABLE NEWS.

THE WHEAT PERIL. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. , , (Aust.-N.Z. Cable Association..* London; June 8. The press is sounding a note of alarm in connection with the world's wheat position. The Times declares that a new food epoch has opened, and unless energetic steps are taken to meet the peril, bread promises to rise to unheard-of prices for a series of years. It urges drastic action by the Government and increased home-grow-ing of wheat. The Daily Mail estimates that on the latest figures Europe is likely €o be short by a thousand million loaves in 1921, and is undoubtedly faced with a bread famine of the worst kind. Every country in Europe is importing, and none is exporting. Britain will be left in the lurch, and will be 3,500,000 tons short. Experts say that on the present prices it will be cheaper to grow wheat in England than to buy it abroad. There- is likely to be a wheat-growing campaign comparable to the great culture during the war. Ottawa, June 8. The outlook for the wheat crops on the Canadian prairie areas is regarded as the best for fifteen years. REPORTED DEFEATS OF RED FORCES. London, June 8. A communique from Warsaw states: Between the_Dvina arid Borysoff our counter-offensive is developing satisfactorily. The Bolsheviks are retreating in disorder, leaving considerable numbers of prisoners and materials. Desertions from the Bolsheviks are increasing. Bolshevik attacks on the bridge-heads at Kieff were severely repulsed. - THE JEWISH NATION. London June 8. The Zionist World Conference will meet in London on 4th July. It will deal with the colonisation of Palestine, for the financing'of which the conference will cappeal to Jews thro conference will appeal to Jews throughout the world to subscribe twenty-five millions sterling.