BREAD FAMINE.
WORLD WHEAT SHORTAGE. HIGH PRICES PREDICTED. . By Tslegraph.—Press Assn.— Copyright. London, June 8. The Press is sounding a note of alarm in connection with the world's wheat position. The Times declares that r. 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 the increasing of home growing. , „ The Daily Mail estimates that Europe, on the latest figures, is likely to be short by 1,000,000,000 loaves in 1921, and is undoubtedly faced with a bread famine of the worst kind. Every country _in Europe is importing and none exporting. Britain has been left in the lurch with I 3,500,000 tons short. Experts say that, on present prices, it is cheaper to grow wheait in England than to buy abroad. There is likely to be a wheat-growing campaign comparable with the great war culture. GOOD NEWS FROM CANADA. Ottawa, June 8. The outlook for the wheat crops in the Canadian prairie areas is regarded as the best for fifteen years.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1920, Page 5
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189BREAD FAMINE. Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1920, Page 5
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