Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-15 | Page 6 | Rumanian Grain Crop Distributed

Ilfll GRAIN CMIBMQ Central Powers Secure 1,386,000 Tons; Food Shortage in Italy. NEW YORK, March 12. Since the occupation oc-cupation of Rumania, Germany has received re-ceived from that territory 630,000 tons of grain,' including corn, and Austria-Hungary, 736,000 tons. This statement is made in a dispatch from the official Wolff bureau, dated Berlin and published in the German newspapers of January 30, which have been received here. Apparently the dispatch was sent out to meet misleading reports regarding the available supplies from the occupied portions por-tions of Rumania and Italy, the dispatch dis-patch pointing out that Italy could not be. considered as a factor as regards the exportation of foodstuffs and fodder. The dispatch says: "There have been repeated reports in the domestic and foreign press regarding the distribution between Germany and Austria-Hungary of the supplies of the occupied Rumanian and Italian territory, which reports are commented upon variously, va-riously, according to the respective political po-litical tendency of the newspapers. "An explanation, therefore, seems in order. As regards Italy, exportation of foodstuffs and fodder cannot be reckoned reck-oned with as the supplies available there are no longer sufficient to feed the Italian population. From Rumania, since the occupation, Germany has received 630,000 and Austria-Hungary 7BG.0(J0 tons of grains. Including corn. For the correct appreciation of these figures, it is necessary neces-sary to consider that the ratio of population popu-lation of Germany and Austria-Hungary Is as seven to five, and that in peace times Germany must import 5,600,000 tons, of grain, including . corn, while Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary has no imports worth mentioning mention-ing of these articles. The remaining supplies of raw materials and products of the soil of the occupied Rumanian and Kalian regions are allotted to Germany and Austria-Hungary' t according to the principle that each one of the countries receives that which it needs most urgently."