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Show 00 RUMANIA WHEAT GOES TO GERMANY London, Aug. 8. The announcement announce-ment that the remainder of Rumania's wheat crop is now going into Austria at tho rate of 360 railway carloads a day has caused great disappointment here, for It was hoped that England and France would be able to conclude ui inucjiicttLs iu jjuiuiiustj Liu ui .Rumania's .Ru-mania's available supply, thus cutting off the possibility of all this foodstuff food-stuff entering Germany and Austria. According to a statement sent from Paris by Colonel Edmond Thery, attache at-tache to the French ministry of war, tho plan for purchase by England and France fell through because the allied al-lied countries were unable to act quickly enough. "Some timo ago," he states, "proposals "pro-posals were made In France for the establishment of an international commission, to which the allies would appoint one delegato each, to prevent the import into Germany of any products prod-ucts which would enable her to prolong pro-long tho war. While this suggestion was still being considered, there came the proposal to buy up the Rumanian wheat harvest. We tried to act on this proposal, but found the difficulties of red tape almost insurmountable, "For example, when the French government directed its ambassador in London to submit the proposal to tho British government, no less than eight days passed before the ambassador ambas-sador could get the opportunity of seeing tho competent minister, Negotiations Ne-gotiations with Russia involved further fur-ther tielay, and by the tlmo the allies al-lies had achieved harmony of purpose It was already too late tho Germans had stepped in and bought up tho whole of the crop." |