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Show N EXPORT STOPPAGE PUISMWHHT Withdrawal of Insurance Rates on Atlantic Also Depressing. CHICAGO, Dec. 11. VlrtuAl stoppage of export buying of wheat and the fact that marine insurance rates on the Atlantic had been completely withdrawn proved a heavy burden today for holders of wheat, especially a.s the submarine issue with Germany seemed more acute. The market mar-ket closed weak, ac to 21ic net. lower, with May $1.75 to S1.754 and July Jl.47 to $1.4$. Corn lost T I"" to oats c to l?ic and provisions 5c to 47 iAc. Although at first' bullish, foreign advices ad-vices tended to lift the wheat market and a material satj took place when hopes of a better Kuropean demand began to dwindle. dwin-dle. Scarcity of supplies in Great Britain and elsewhere gave only a lemporary advantage ad-vantage to tiie hulls and there was but little lit-tle att en t ion paid to reduced estimates h of yield in Australia. Dry weather complaints from Kansas were likewise quickly dismissed. Meanwhile Mean-while an advance in maritime insurance charges acted as a discouragement to buyers buy-ers and the bearish effect was soon emphasized em-phasized through notices that offers of war risk rates on the Atlantic ocean had been cancelled altogether. It was ahout this juncture that word came from Washington telling of views there that German submarine commanders had clearly clear-ly violated the German agreement with tiie United States. A sharp falling off in the domestic visible vis-ible supply total rallied the wheat market mar-ket late in the session, but an in the case of the upturn in prices at the opening open-ing the change was not of a lasting sort. It was discovered that the Buffalo stocks afloafwere not included in the total, and this circumstance, together with the general gen-eral uncertainty of the ocean shipping situation caused a new rush to sell as the day reached an end. Announcement that railway embargoes would halt shipments of corn to Baltimore Balti-more put the corn market on the down grade. Previously the market was firm in sympathy with a sharp advance in quotations quo-tations in Great Britain, where consumption consump-tion was said to be liberal, owing to the scarcity and dearness of other grains. Oats trade was small. Absence of inquiry in-quiry from ' the seaboard had a bearish influence. Provisions gave way on "account of "big deliveries of lard on December contracts. Besides, exports last week were much short of what had been looked for. RANGE OF THE LEADING FUTURES. Open. High. Low. Close. Wheat-May Wheat-May . ..$1-771$ $l.7JH& 51-74 1.75 July . .. 1.49 l.oOVi 1.47?i 1.47 Corn-May Corn-May . .. .fHli .9376 -92 .92 July . .. .9314 .931$ .917-a .91 Oats-May Oats-May . .. ,5 .57 .65 .65 July . .. -54l8 -54U .52 .53 Pork-Jan Pork-Jan 27.15 2fi . 65 26.65 May . ..26.40 2.40 li6.10 26.15 Lard Jan. . ..16.25 16.32 15.55 15.70 May . ..16.25 16.27 15.70 15.70 Ribs Jan. . ..14.07 M.10 13. SO 13. SO .May . ..14.32 14.35 14.12 14.17 , SCASH QUOTATIONS. Wheat, No. 2 red, nominal; No. 3 red, ?l.rfti'1.73; No. 2 hard, $1.79; No. 3 hard, nominal. Corn, No. 2 vellow, fMc; No. 4 yellow, 91c; No. 4 white, flOVfcfo&So. Oats, No. 3 white, 53V2i)413c; standard, 5-lir54:;4c. Jive, No. 2, $1.43c. l-'.ariev. !)0cl.L'3. Tinmthv, $3.2fi;fi.50. Clover, iM2.00fU7.00. Pork, J2S.50. Lard, $16.17. Ribs, $13.30 fr 13.80. |