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Newspaper
Northam Courier
Location
Northam, Western Australia, Australia
Date
May 04, 1917
Page
2
A report by former American minister to Brussels Mr Brand Whitlock asserts German acts in Belgium are among history’s foulest. He cites Von Hindenburg and Von Bissing, detailing a planned reign of terror that separated families and brutalized hungry, shivering Belgians, demonstrating coldly executed cruelty.
Huwbolt traces the potato from Chile to Columbia and the Andes to Europe noting early cultivation by natives near Quito and in Peru. He cites English introduction via Santa Fe in the sixteenth century and William Raleigh supplying tubers to Ireland. By the eighteenth century it spread in England and became a staple, but the 1845 blight caused widespread famine in Ireland.
The article argues high freight rates raise bread costs. It cites 1914 grain shipments from Argentina at 15s per ton, now at least 8 per ton. Submarines threaten ships, yet owners profit from increased freight. A line reportedly earned L630,000 in one year and shareholders shared over L1,000,000. Old ships sold for high profits. a vessel once worth L12,000 sold near L35,000. Wheat freight from Canada rose from 10s to over L3 per ton.
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