The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-11-17
EUR0PEAheROP
Being HARVESTED
XII gsfl Y y
Sugar Shortage In Italy Sends
.>y Values TO Famine s,.sil
Level -.

The Dutch factories are at work on
the new crop and the suar famine has
been broken in Holland. II. G. Prinsen.
Geerligs states in recent advices pub.
lished in the Louisiana Planter. In
part he says: f.4s ii # s..b- Il n
1.-THE German authorities have given
free the first sixty per cent of the prob
able 1857 sugar production to be dis.
tributed to the refners. The total pro.
duction is estimated at 100000 tons
so that something under one million
tons have been made saleable during
the months October Dec einber, 1915
Certainly one third of that much was
sold in week 3 time and as soon as the
crop will be taken of, which will hap.
pen in the first half of October the de.
hveries to the refneries may commence,
The price has been fixed at fifteen
marks per fifty kilos raw sugar and
lightweight rendiment, sacks to be de-
hvered by buyer or in account, free on
warehouse Magdeburg. The price is
therefore three marks over, that Of the
year before, which Ia only small in.
crease, compared with the huge rises in
price of every other commodity.
Central European Convention r. ~
AhC anu AuStTlhH KONtTH-
ments have made convention, in
which. the regulations, laid down in the
Brussels Convention, are kept upright
for these two. countries. Further the
supply of sugar to the Balkan coun.
tries and to the IIevant has been al.
lotted to Austria, which has obliged il.
self to refrain from entering into the
markets within the sphere of interests
of the German sugar industry.
"In the occupied part of Poland
twenty-one sugar factories have been
either totally destroyed or so greatly
damaged during the two years of the
war that they cannot resume business
this fall, and the beet cultivation has
decreased there accordingly: The pro.
duction of that country which in nor.
mai years sent out sugar in great guam.
fifty, will be such that only Just suffi.
eient sugar for their own population
will be forthcoming. '.fI
Sugar Thirty Gents IN ITALY a.
'SThe economist Enaudi believes q
sugar famine to be imminent in Italy.
since the sugar consumption has risen
there from 100, 900 tons to 250, 900 tons.
owing to'the increased demands of the
army. The home production win GER
tainly not exceed 10000 tons, so that
the balance ought to be imported, but
the great question is where to get that
much from, as none o. the usual ex.
Srtting countries has sugar to spare.
fhQreign sugar costs in Genoa las to $50
NIo per 100 kilOs, to which must be
hpded % lire for custom duties and fur.
Tier the freight to destination and the
profts of the middlemen. The retail
priee will, therefore, be about three lire
'er' kilo, or about thirty cents Amer.
can. money per pound. The only wav
to obtain sugar is importation by gov.
ernment ard distribution at a low price
among the consumers at loss for the
exchequer.
Russian Statistics
1.-The Russian sugar production dur
ing the months September-June has
amounted to 1,667,lll tons against
l,977, 5S5 in the same period of f914.15.
Together with the stock from the fore
going campaign, the year 1856 will
have the disposal over 2,O4O,37 tons,
against 2,2S0,SSl in 19I4-15. The ex.
portation during these ten months was
this time 1863, against 92,516 in the
foregoing campaign, therefore leaving
for the home consumption respectively
l,965,704 and 2.lSS, 1865 tons. As the
stocks at the end of June were 33l.4ll
tons this year and 500, 934 tons in 1918
at the same date, we calculate a con
sumption in the ten months under con
sidetation of l,634 ,293 tons in 1915. l6
and l,5Sl,43i tons in 19l4-15.
The consumption in ten months has
been 1874 ,293 or in two months IL ia
equivalent with 800, 900 tons. The to.
tai stock will. therefore, disappear, If
the consumption was to remain the
same as during the already elapsed part
of the campaign, which clearly shows
that consumption will have TO be great
" reduced, as there must be at any rate
some sugar left for the October use too.
The same report, namely, scarcity and
FhOrtage comes from every part of Eu.
rope, strangely contrasting with the
plethora of sugar In the big cane sugar
Croiuting countries, Cuba and Java.
Jaw Has Big Crop
1.-The reports from the las'-mon.
toned island continue to be favorable
The grinding proceeds very rapidly. in
fact, many sugar factories have finished
their crop at a much earlier date than
usually, thereby harvesting uncommon.
ly good productions. The tonnage of
cane is better than we have witnessed
for yeaF, and the sugar content is q
great deal better. Add to this the very
high price of sugar then we see what
large profits the Java sugar people will
book this year. Government takes Off a
fair portion in the shape of a special
war-tax. in order TO meet the great ex.
nense brOu@ht along by the defense of
the neutrality and independence, but
anyhow a nice profit will remain to con.
sole the proprietors with the unfavor.
:, r"sgItS Of som" of the latter years.
Britain Has Enough
The SUGAR importation into Great
Britain during the month of August
has again been up to the consumption.
The raw sugar, exclusively cane, came
into the amount of 1890 tons, against
86,643 tons in the same month of 1915.
Java sent 30,7S6 tons, Cuba % ,407,
Mauritius 4695 and Bra iii 234l. The
refined sugar was imported to the guam,