Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-07-11 | Page 13 | Offers Raw Hides for Leather Goods

OffERS RAW RAVI HIDES fOR lEATHER GOODS France Ready to Lift Embargo if Assured of Military Supplies Supplies Supplies Sup Sup- plies Needed Washington Jul July 10 France Franco has offered ot- ot of offered to lift her embargo on raw hides i In return for a supply of ot American I leather goods for tor military purposes according according ac- ac cording to advices resolved received tO today ClY The plan If It worked out will reI release case for manufacture in this country a vast quantity of at raw hl hides es which accumulated accumulated In France Franco as a result of ot tho the embargo embargo embargo em em- bargo and because of or the extensive slaughter of ot French cattle for Cor food Paris dispatches also alno contain requests ro- ro quests for American wheat for forthe forthe the tho use of civilian bakers The leather and hides proposal calls for tor samples and quotations on AmerIcan American American Amer Amer- ican leather goods and convoys conveys the as assurance at- at that if offers are are aro accepted and delivery deliver affected tho the embargo emu on hides will be lifted to allow the tho exportation to this country of raw hides in amounts equivalent to the thc leather goods delivered ered The proposals have been laid be before before be- be fore tore American leather goods g merchants by the department of ot commerce Tho The l French flour supply not only for tor troops in tho the field but In tho the departments de departments departments de- de where concentration and In in- in trenched camps camPa are located has been taken over o by the government It is sold to private bakers at the tho prevailing prevailing prevail prevail- ing IlIg market price subject to a rebate of or 2 francs about 40 cents p per r sack If the thc bread Is ItS sold at nt prices prevailing prevailing prevail prevail- ing InS b before fore the tho war Commercial agents In Paris are prepared to market tons of ot American flour J if It can be bo delivered In France and American millers millers mill mill- ers ema have been asked to furnish that amount