AMERICA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 97, 19 September 1914, Page 5

AMERICA

PROTRACTED STRUGGLE EXPECTED. ; HEAVY PURCHASERS OF WHEAT. l' New York, September IT. / There is heavy foreign buying of wheat, flour and oata, speculators believing that the war will be protracted. Over two million bushels of oata were purchased for export on Tuesday and Wednesday, and nearly the game amount of wheat.

l' INCREASING WHEAT ACREAGE. jjr' Ottawa, September If. After consulting representatives *f (Western Canada, the Minister of Agriculture lias urged farmers to inoreaao Joe wheat acreage under cultivation in yiew of the war conditions in Europe. '"' HEIPLY TO BELGiAN MlSSiiwl. Rii& * —• I Washington, Sept. 17. President Wilson received the Belgian mission, and promised carefully t» consider their protest, and added: "I pay God that very soon the war will be over. The day of accounting will then come, when the nations of Europe Will assemble to determine a scttlemeat. [Where wrongs have been committed Iheir consequences and the relative r*•ponsibility of those involved will be fcssessed. Fortunately the nation* of the world have by agreement made a [Jan for such reckoning and assei»»ent, •nd what such a plan cannot compass, the opinion of mankind, the final arbiter in »uch matters, will supply.