BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 4 September 1915, Page 8

BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL NEWS.

RUSSIAN WHEAT HARVEST.

, LONDON, Sept. 3. 'The great effect the forcing of the Dardanelles will have on the food question is shown in the estimates of the Russian grain crop. Cutting will be finished in a week. The**grand total is expected to he 250 million quarters. Crops already harvested are 55 million quarters above last year's- yield, and 36fc million quarters in excess of the five years' average. The Daily Mail , correspondent in supplying these figures says that the Russian Minister for Agriculture has given a definite assurance in. figures, co dispelling doubts thrown by German agents on the unusual value of the yield. Qreat quantities of grain' are accumulating on the Back Sea waiting successful Gallipoli operations.