FRANCE FACES BREAD CRISIS
Received Mondav; 7.30 p.m. LONDON, May 12. France risks going breadiess for tnc ivhole of June if the present delicit or 400,000 tons of wheat is not made up says the Daily Ilorald's Paris correspondent. It is esfimated that hundredof thousands of tons of wheat fron tlie 1940 harvest are still stored oi French farms. President Auriol is tc head. a "national committee for vvheat collection " to direct a campaign to gei the wheat from ricks and barns to thv inills as fast as possible. Bakers 11 sonie parts of France are.closing threi days vveelcly. The sale of sandvViche.has been forbidden. There are scatter ed bread riots vvitli looting of bakenes
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 May 1947, Page 5
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