Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1918 — French Sugar Mills Destroyed [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

French Sugar Mills Destroyed

France must import sugar today, most of it from this side of the ocfcan, because the largest portion of French sugar beet land is fn 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 'hows how the German

troops destroyed French sugar mills. Thanks to the French rationing system the annual consumption lias been cut to GOO,OOO 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. 0