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Show LOAF SUGAR SCARCE IN MERRIE ENGLAND Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, ' Sept. 23. The big grocery j firms In various parts of England have sent circulars to their customers asking them to exercise the greatest possible economy In the use of loaf sugar, which is very popular In F.nglnnrt for cooking, canning and similar purposes. The gro-icrs gro-icrs suggest the substitution, of brown sugar for most uses. Before the war the bulk of the loaf supar used in England was imported from Austria, Germane ani Belgium. This supply sup-ply has neen cut off and there Is there- i fore a considerable deficiency, which the few loaf-sugar refineries In England cannot can-not make up. There has been no advance in price, however, as this Is controlled by the royal commission on sugar. |