BATTLE ZONES
LONDON, June 7.—Serious loss re
sulted from the great battle in France
is the ruin of great areas of land be
hind the old British lines, which was
under cultivation by the army. The
British and French Food Production
departments were carrying out on a
laTge scnle a scheme for growing
vegetables behind the lines for the
use of the soldiers.
The last official figure of the land
cultivated in this way in the zone of
the British army was 50,000 acres, al
though in recent months the figure
has been much increased. A great
deal of the new work had been done
in the neighborhood of Peronne, and
at Ham, Kpehy and near Chauny. All
this land had been plowed with
American tractor plows and a great
deal of it planted with potatoes.
Another work which has been lost
is that begun by the Quakers to suc
cor the victims of war in the terri
tories won back from the Germans a
year ago. The Quakers had a large
farm near Ham, which was their gen
eral headquarters, from which they
were sending out automobile tractors
to plow land, were helping the re
turned peasants to restore their mar
ket gardens, and were providing them
with goats to replace the cattle taken
by the enemy. This work will prob
ably have to be abandoned until the
war ends.
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Madame L,ydia, the paimist, will be
found in the Currier & Mlckelson
building on C. street. 16-tf
RESTRICTION ON IMPORTS
IS NOT TO BE EMBARGO
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the restricted lists. Only one per cent
will be shut out. Art works are on
the restricted lists, but as about 94
per cent of the imports have come
from channel Europe, only 6 per cent
will be excluded. Most manufactures
of cotton come from Europe, so only
about 9 per cent will be excluded.
In every case, of course, even those
goods cannot come in from Europe
unless they are ready to be loaded
at convenient ports as back-haul car
goes.
At the other extreme are toys, honey,
pencils an^ pencil holders, um
brellas, poultry, eggs and electri
lamps. The reduction in the imports
will be about as follows: Toys, 85
per cent; honey, 96 per cent: pencils
and pencil leads, 60 per cent; umbrel
las, 72 per cent; poultry and eggs, 60
per cent; electric lamps, 75 per cent.
The lists have not been in effect
long enough to make it possible to
determine precisely what the effects
will be. Some manufacturers say
that existing stocks are such that there
is no immediate cause for worry. Oth
ers already are adjusting their business
to tne new conditions, The eitect on
shipping is also open to question. As
the savings in dead weight tonnage
were estimated on the figures for
the fiscal year of 1916-17, and it is
certain that between the end of that
year and the making up of the lists
there had been a considerable inter
ruption of ocean transportation, it has
been found impossible to state what
the exact saving will be. It is safe
to say, however that it will lie well
up in the six figures.
Importers’ Interests Guarded
The administration of the lists has
been done with the intention of pre
venting any great hardship on import
ers. In the case of restricted commo
dities, importers were required to get
the license numbers in advance and'
cable them abroad. This caused a
little delay, but it was taken in ex
cellent spirit on tlie whole. Nomin-j
ally, import licenses were also re
quired for goods which are not named
on the tists, but. as the plan worked
out, entry was allowed if a license
was applied lor and granted even
after the goods had landed on the
dock in this country. Two three
days ago, however, the VVat^T.rade
board made an important amendment
to the practice. It is now necessary
for an importer of even unrestricted
goods to get a license in advance and
to have the license number cabled
abroad.
Looking to the Future
This new practice will shut the door
on various German schemes, and' will
make it difficult for the Germans to
get a flying start for post-war com
petition.
As soon as the first of the restric
ted lists was published there were
requests for exceptions of various
kinds. The burden was placed on the
petitioner of showing the necessity
for the exception, and clear cases
received sympathetic action Some
business men who asked to have the
lists amended withdrew their requests
<vhen they learned the inside facts
of the case—facts usually having to
do with shipping. In still other cases,,
a plain recital of the reasons tor re
stricting the commodities was suffi
cient. Some men interested in the
peanut industry protested iii good
faith against the exclusion of peanuts
from Asia. The opposition was over
come by a letter to the trade, show
ing that the 1918 domestic crop is ex
pected to reach 100,000,000 bushels,
and that imports have never exceeded
1,500,000 bushels, only a fraction of
the increase predicted in production
here.
the significant paragraph of the let
ter was the official statement:
“The demand for shipping for mili
tary purposes is so great that all dis
pensable commodities must be elimin
ated from our import trade. In fact,
it is probably true that, with all dis
pensable commodities eliminated and
essential imports pared down to the
very bone of minimum requirements,
there still will remain a shortage of
shipping to satisfy the needs of mili
tary uses and our essential industries
during the remainder of the war.’*
That is the explanation of the re
stricted lists, those in effect now and
those to follow—there is not enough
shipping for military needs and esen
tial industries, to say nothing of the
other industries. And, as the mili
tary program is now even more ambi
tious than when that lettor went out
and there is an even greater compar
ative shortage of shipping, it is not
a wild statement that Uncle Sam has
not yet stripped to the waist for the
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