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Daily Capital Journal
Salem, Marion County, Oregon
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Due to German control of French sugar beet lands and destruction of mills by German troops, France imports most sugar and rations it at 18 pounds per person annually, reducing consumption to 600,000 tons from pre-war 750,000 tons.
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France must import sugar today, most of it from this side of the ocean, because the largest portion of French sugar beet land is in German hands.
As a result, the French people have been placed on a sugar ration of about 18 pounds a year for domestic use; a pound and a half a month. This photograph shows how the German troops destroyed French sugar mills.
Thanks to the French rationing system the annual consumption has been cut to 600,000 tons, according to reports reaching the United States Food Administration. Before the war France had an average sugar crop of about 750,000 tons of sugar and had some left over for export.
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french people placed on sugar ration of about 18 pounds a year; annual consumption cut to 600,000 tons; before war, average crop of 750,000 tons with some for export
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France must import sugar, most from this side of the ocean, because largest portion of French sugar beet land is in German hands. German troops destroyed French sugar mills. Thanks to French rationing system, annual consumption cut to 600,000 tons, according to reports reaching the United States Food Administration. Before the war France had an average sugar crop of about 750,000 tons of sugar and had some left over for export.