A WHEAT FAMINE.
THREATENED IN FRANCE. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, May 9.
Reuter’s Paris correspondent reports that the present stock of wheat is 44,000,000 kilogrammes, instead of the normal several hundred millions. The price of bread is rising, and is causing apprehension. Large orders for grain have been placed in Canada, the Argentine and Australia. The Government has decided that it cannot suspend the tariff of seven francs per hundred kilogrammes, although it may prolong for two or three months the period wherein wheat may be imported free on condition it is equivalent to tho weight exported from France.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143787, 10 May 1912, Page 3
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99A WHEAT FAMINE. Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143787, 10 May 1912, Page 3
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