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Show BELGIAN SUGAR CROP Tho editor of tho Belgian sugar journal, Sucrerle Holgo, P. Sachs, contributes to tho current Usuo of tho International Sugar Journal what Is apparently tho first authentic information in-formation regarding tho sugar crop of Belgium during tho past season. Contrary to tho widoly published ro ports of tho destruction ot sugar factories fac-tories In tho territory occupied by tho Hermans and tho almost total loss of tho beets grown last year, M. I Sachs assorts that tho owners ot i Belgian sugur factories rotolvcd tho cooperation ot tho Gorman civil administration ad-ministration ln harvesting and working work-ing up tho beet supply. According to lis oBtlmato tho sugar output for tho soason was In oxcoss ot 150,000 tons which, although approximately 100,000 tons bolow tho nvorago yield of tho past fow years, Is sufficient for tho normal needs ot tho Belgian population. In his roport M. Sachs says in part: Sixty sugar factories nnd fourteen raperles have been ablo to work this campaign in Belgium. Only nlno factories, fac-tories, mostly ot but small (dimensions, (dimen-sions, havo been unablo to work. No Belgian sugar factory has boon destroyed de-stroyed savo perhaps that ot Wnrno-ton, Wnrno-ton, situated near to Yprea and of which I hnvo no recent news. Tho tolnl sugar production of Hoi-glum Hoi-glum this year will certainly oxeced i ICO.000 tons. It will thus bo consld-t consld-t ernbly higher than tho consumption ijn normal times. This Is cortalnl I a commendablo achievement in tho I faco ot nil the difficulties which have been encountered, |