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Show WORLD SHORTAGE IN BEET SUGAR Crops Are 40 Per Cent. Less Than Pre-War AverageCentral AverageCen-tral Powers Hit Hardest. CANE SUGAR IS ISOLATED. Allied Beet Production Falls One-third in Rigid War Economy Practiced. . i " The world todny is producing forty per cent, less beet sugar than the prewar pre-war uvemire. . , Comtilng the American, Allied and ' Oi-nian-AiiMrinn crops, us well as the ' ii'.MitrnK the U. S. Fond AdniinNtra-f AdniinNtra-f timi tins estimated that the world : shortage muted by the light crop of ' Hl'-l'.ilS is at least three and a half million tons. k That the 191M01S crop of enne sugar sug-ar was two million tons In excess of the previous year does not relieve the general shortage. Cuta and Java pr6duce one-half of the world cane crop, and the Java sugar sug-ar Is too far removed from America to trans,ort when shipping Is badly needed need-ed to transmit and maintain the military mili-tary forces In France. In Javs a large part of the old sugar crop Is still awaiting shipment Since It requires l.r0 to 160 days for each bos', that Is sent to Java, the posslbill-. (ties of obtaining adequate shipments of Java sugar this season are remote. Allies' Production Falls. Taking the Allied nations as a group, official reports show that beet sugar production Is let by one-third than the pre-war average.' t French bwf sugar Industry has suffered suf-fered most by the war. The French yield of beet stigar Is now only 20.1 per cent, of the pre-war average. For the five years preceding the outbreak out-break of hostilities In rjitrope, France produced an average of 7.".2,.V2 tons of sugar ench year. For 1917-1S the .French production was 210,11(1 tons. With CI factories operating, as compared com-pared with more than 2W that were i In existence In-fore the war and before Bthe general cum; ak'n of destructlve-ness destructlve-ness lntyii'lieil by the Cermaii armies, France nevertheless mannged to maim- ' " facture more beet stuar In V.H7-1S than in l!Hi( l7, when the total output , was 202.-U.". tons. j ImIv In 1U17 IS produced loo.soo i ! u,ns nf beet !!!.' r, which wns ."li.ooo 1 ;,,ns ! . than the previous year and ' i in :' o !, s than the nniiufil output of j ..iiuar for tin live year pre-war pe- line iif 'be ri'ent (lit!ici:l!les eperi-.iced eperi-.iced P.ilv's lieef siuriir lltlv'ry u:is I'll"', te- mil!':' ietit. b'-nr to halelle !ie cinp. 'I'lii.v-.iU'is of nun nsii;iiiv .ipb.yed in beet sti'ar product ion j , ,. e:r,!,-l f..r i ..:'',' -iry serv ice. The j ; per acre iuniru '. .I to i'pprol- I ' ' -i f of the usual uuuntity of - ,li;,.-,.I. |