COST OF LIVING

Southland Times, Issue 18845, 10 June 1920, Page 5

COST OF LIVING

NEW FOOD EPOCH OPENED. EUROPEAN BREAD FAMINE PREDICTED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (The Times.) LONDON, June 8. The Times declares that a new food epoch has opened, and unless energetic steps are taken to meet the peril bread promises to rise to unheard of prices over a series of years. The Times urges drastic Government action in the direction of increasing the home-growing of wheat. The Daily Mail estimates that Europe on the latest figures is likely to be short by 1,000,000,000 loaves in 1921, and will undoubtedly be faced with a bread famine of the worst kind. Every country in Europe is importing and none is exporting. Britain has been left in the lurch, being 3,500,000 tons short. Experts say that on present prices it is cheaper to grow wheat in England than to buy abroad. There is likely to be a wheat-growing campaign comparable with the great war culture. CANADIAN WHEAT CROPS. A HOPEFUL OUTLOOK. OTTAWA, June 8. The outlook for wheat crops in the Canadian prairie areas is regarded as the best for fifteen years. FOOD RIOTS IN AUSTRIA. VIENNA, June 8. (Received June 9, 10.40 p.m.) A demonstration at Grata against the high prices of food resulted in rioting, during which the police fired on the crowd, killing six.