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Show FRANCE LOOKS TO UNITED STATES j FOR FOOD ' Crops Short and America Must Continue to Send Supplies. By EJward M. Thierry Nawapapar tntarprlaa Staff Cora-spondant. Cora-spondant. PARIS. Nov. 21.-Vail quantltlfa off food product must come to Franc this . winter. All ees are on America. J A Si'irmnl drought lst aummer serious- ly irtjurd the French harvest A warn- In has been issued Chat further sue- j rlfire. more strlnsent food restrictions, ; mav have to be Imposed. France, factnc the winier. Is looking to America to feed Ma people. Approximately Approx-imately 100.OOfl.eno bushels of wheat alone are needed for dally bread rations. : "The economic situation Is alarming, said M liomnl, a French senator from j the Puy de Iome region. "All the harvests har-vests have been brought In and we are In a position to measure our needs. DEFICIENCY OF F-HODUCTION. i -Production this year hss been sadly deficient !eslte. our expectations lat spring of bumper crops," the deplorable dry weather has mined many rich agricultural agri-cultural district of France. "There has been almost no fruit. Vege- j tables are few. Cereals sre poor. I'o- inn ir n. t''"t' ' ' "lir ' last year, ar i per cent 1 sa than In J17. lUilv the wheat rrope have given any satisfaction at alt. There has been some Improvement in Ihtm . thftftM to the awskening of the agricultural movement In th ataiiidoned regions. "Hut If our dslly bread rations are to continue throughout the winter we must -..mhow somewhere sn addl- liotial thirty or forty inillinii H" "'I (between i2.O00.0oo and 110.000. 0"0 bushels) bush-els) of wheat. 1 MORE SACRIFICES. "The outlook Is not bright Something must be done. Something will he done, i The people of France must take the tnl- ttatlve. They must be willing to make i more sacrifices. They must not be afraid . Of further and stricter restrictions." i Paris papers, in commenting on the situation. sit-uation. v larss uuantMles of food products were regained by the allies r-cspt-ure of regions tnvsded by the Germans Ger-mans after crop were planted last spring. Hut these appsrently have not sufficed to equalise the loea from lack of rain. (tens tor (lomot was reluctant to discuss dis-cuss America s share In the supplying of food to France during the approaching winter, Intimating that America had already al-ready done and was doing so much that tr was not proper to ak Si Ht- French papers and the public genersliy frankly look to the great nation "over there." |