FRENCH WHEAT SUPPLY.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13413, 10 May 1912, Page 5

FRENCH WHEAT SUPPLY.

STORES ALARMINGLY SHORT

LARGE ORDERS FOR GRAIN

CENTRES

(Received May 9, 9.55 p.m.)

London, May 0

Renter's Paris correspondent reports that the present stock of wheat is 45,000,000 kilogrammes, instead of the normal supply, which is several hundred millions. The price of bread is rising, and is causing much apprehension. Largo orders for grain have been placed in Canada, Argentine and Australia.

The Government has decided that 't cannot suspend the tariff of 7 francs per hundred kilogrammes, although it may prolong for two or three months the period wherein wheat may be imported free, on condition that an equivalent weight is exported from Franco.