LONDON WHEAT MARKET.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14165, 16 August 1916, Page 5

LONDON WHEAT MARKET.

CAUSES OF THE RISE

GERMAN-AMERICAN CONSPIRACY

SUGGESTED.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received August 15, 7 p.m.)

London, August 14

The "Daily Telegraph" declares that Chicago influences are largely responsible for the rise of wheat on the English markets during the past few days. Some Mark Lane factors declare that the movement is the result of a German-American conspiracy to force prices up. If Britain could increase the freightage from the Argentine and Australia it would counteract the American gambling.