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Show GREAT BRITAIN HAS PLENTY OF POTATOES By International Xews Service. LONDON, Dec. 15. In the matter of potatoes lingland has gone from one extreme ex-treme to the orber. Iast ypar the crop was poor and in ti it; spring the supply failed. This year, as Lord lihondda told a Mansion House meeting recently, there is a surplus of a couple of million tons. The food cuniroiier described himself a.s a brave man struggling with prosperity. pros-perity. Now be had qxt this surplus, he; didn't quite, know what to do with ii. The price of potatoes was no doubt hich. Hut they were grown und"r an inducement induce-ment offered by the government many months ago that lh" price should not go below $;b) ;i ton. lie had tn ca ri y ou t pledrrs made bv the eovej-ninein. |