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Show HL COBS THE EXPORT OF FOOD I TO GERMANS I Suspicion Aroused by Tales j of Want From Denmark; ; Scandinavian Governments Govern-ments in Agreement. 'i PRODUCTS WILL BE 1 FREELY EXCHANGED i Norway and Sweden Will 1 Get All Kinds of Food-1 Food-1 stuffs and the Danes 5 Raw Material. By Jnivcrsal Sfirvice. I 'WASHINGTON, July 7. Kxports of 'J footL-tuffs to the con trill powers from r Dnimark is boln curbed by the asfio- ciatcd Scandinavian governments. " iJe.- plte reports of want In Denmark. n confidential reports from semi-official I yburc's to the government here show supples in that country adequnte, and, Ihouii prii-cs are liili and eronomic con- VB dltions diificull, its continued exports of ' foods 10 belligerents would indicate It is J ip no ttanLT ut" tarvin. '? SiisiiiLion is aroused that the dark tales ; of want coining out of i 't'nniarlt are for J, the purpose of socuiinp reserve stocks of j tood which could lie sold ut hue profits J to the entral powers. , i ,T1ip. associated Scandinavian govern-" govern-" nfi(;ift .re taking si tips to restrict cx- II ioi'is of rain, fodder and fat to Den-, Den-, 1 mark, which, experienco has taught them, , Vj would merely servo to increase the i(! nniount of cattle, meat, butter and other foodstuffs avnilalilo for export to the cen-" cen-" , tnil powers where, as is shown by the reduction In the potato, bread and meat ! nit ions, imported food is needed as never uj before. d Conference at Copenhagen. ( ''J'he conference of Scandinavian gov-lt gov-lt eminent ministers at Copenhagen on , June 26 and 27 is said to have dealt with 1 ih-; problems of development of a mutual exchange of products between the three Scandinavian countries to meet wartime conditions. The arrangement agreed on provides: -.Denmark is to export to fta neighbors large surplus foodstuffs; Sweden, iron, steel, cellulose products, and Norway, nitrates for fertilizing purpose and other Norwegian products. The arrangement has already resulted in considerable interchange in-terchange of business. Denmark lias been able, despite poor i cropn lust year, to export to Norway and Sweden considerable quantities of cattle, grain, potatoes, vegetables, butter, eggs, sii'jar and cheese. Some export was also it directed to Finland. The city of Copen-1 Copen-1 ha gen alone released 4000 tons of salted t meats from its stores to Finland. o May Go to Germany. j There is fear here lest much of these 'f)u. sports to Finland will fall into the hands slf ot Finnish armies now operating with the nan armies In the Kola peninsula, l Howeier, if this surplus did not go to pi Kii.tand, it might go directly into Ger--I1 ynnn liands as much of the Danish ex-ctS ex-ctS Ip'!! lias been going in the past. rrJ Heavy imports of coal from England p,.a Wv relieved the coal famine in Den-mrt Den-mrt f'5' ancl 'n return for this Denmark is ,,n rt.-'Hcting the flow of communication ivjv aw Germany. Despite t lie interference n,tt c( Grman submarines, this flow of coal !i about one-third greater than the move-I move-I ' ist it of coal from Germany to Denmark. |