1951-09-08 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1951.

FOR GERMANY'S SWEET TOOTH-$20,000,000 IN SUGAR

EAGER HANDS reached out for scarce chocolate bars when they were distributed in Germany, Shortage of

sweets will be overcome when sugar shipment, shown being loaded (left) at San Juan, P. R., arrives abroad.

THOUSANDS of German tots,. deprived of candy and other delicacies by the war and its aftermath, ore in for a sweet surprise. Slowly making their way across the Atlantic are a number of vessels, their halds packed tight with the first part of a $20 million shipment, of sugar, :

The toothsome cargo was recently purchased from Puerto Rico by the United States Department of Agriculture. Under Economic' Co-operation Administration orders, 220,000 tons will be shipped abroad. Within weeks, candy-starved youngsters will find Ger-,

man shops filled with many varleties of sweets whith disappeared from counters not long after Hitler came into power..

The shipment is part of a record Puerto Rican crop of 1,282,000 tons that will bring $130 million to the residents of the island. It took 135,000 men, working steadily for six months, to harvest it. Huge crushers at the mills are grinding millions of cane stalks, to extract every ounce of syrup from them. When the sugar is finally refined, 105,000 tons will be consumed on the island, 910,000 tons shipped to the United States and the rest exported;

USING 'sharp machetes, workers cut sugar stalks all day long. Each man chops down average of two tons daily.

SUGAR is shipped in bags or poured into the big holds of cargo ships in loose form as shown in picture above.

ON A HILLSIDE in Pu

led carts; drawn by

HEADING FOR:

150 pound load of

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cario:stalks on hand Natives wear special type ofthat!