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Show Great Wtel Slacks It's the shortage in shins that Is putting the Allies and the United States on wheat rations. Great stocks of wheat are isolated iso-lated In India, and Australia. At great sacrifice in ship space and use the Allies are forced to secure se-cure some wheat from Argentina. On January 1, Australia had stored 100.000.000 bushels of ! wheat that was ready for exportbut ex-portbut there were no ships. j Then came the new crop with ' an exportable surplus of ko.iioo.- w ousneis. .Now Australia lias approximately lSo.odii.iido bushels bush-els waiting for ships. India, at the same time, bad 70.000. (XK) bushels of whrat stored for export, purine April 30,000,000 bushels more nut of the new crop will be added to the pile. Argentina closed the last shipping ship-ping season .with ll.tioo.ooo bushels of wheat left in the stock available for export. The new crop will add i:'.5.ooo,000 to the left over. It Is not a problem that the wheat does not exist in the world it is entirely a problem of shipping, which lias thrown on America the obligation of dividing divid-ing our stock with the Allies. |