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Show BREAD PRICE OF FRANCE TO RISE Statesman Appeals Against: Sending Gold Out for I Foreign Grain PARIS. Nov. 7. (Canadian Press (Cables via. Reuters ) The shortage hi this year's wheat crop doubtless will u-ause an advance in the price of I bread In France The price at present pres-ent is one franc and five centimes P' " t.2 pounds and is fixed by the government. govern-ment. The minister of agriculture has addressed ad-dressed a letter to the prefect's department de-partment stating that tho present sit-uaion sit-uaion is due to causes which are not 'likely to recur. "With tho rates of exchange ex-change as they stand now. he says, it is necessary to avoid the importation of wheat, into this country. The minister min-ister appeals to Uie population to avoid the necessity of sending French gold abroad. j France's wheat crop for this year is more than one-fourth short of last year and nearly one-third under the customary annual needs, according to statistics published by the minister of agriculture at the end of September .This is due to a reduction of tjOO.000 lucres in the area planted, the -mall I yield per aero, and bad weather. nn |