Female shortage.

There is some considerable shortage of labour there (owing in part to the Armenian massacres, to which we shall revert presently), but the financial arrangements are in excellent shape.

This augmented yield will, it is true, not be adequate to supply the needs of Turkey, who for the last two years has suffered from very acute food shortage, which in certain districts has amounted to famine and wholesale starvation of the poorer classes.

"] Yet another endurable shortage is reported from the seaside, where an old sailor on the local sea front has been lamenting the spiritual starvation brought about by the war.

This is one reason, in addition to the British blockade, which causes the great fat shortage among the civil population.

The mine's good, a sound, rich vein, and the labor conditions aren't bad; but there's one fatal defecta car shortage on the only railroad that reaches it.

The frequent shortage of water in this régime made the flooding irregular and necessitated many hoeings of the crop.

*** The Timber Commission reports a grave shortage of birch, and a number of earnest ushers are asking, "What is the use of the censorship?" *** It is now declared that the high explosive found on Countess MARKIEVICZ'S "green scouts" was not intended for destructive purposes.

Tools, metal material, leather, straps and dozens of items are administered with the same spirit of jealous guardianship by Day, Lashly, Oates and Meares, while our main storekeeper Bowers even affects to bemoan imaginary shortages.

We probably have been uneasily conscious for some time of an inconvenient shortage of these troublesome articles and eventually will go off (or perhaps will be sent off with ignominy) to the nearest suitable shop to make good the deficiency.

At the same time her father decided that there was no reason why her pitiful shortage of avoirdupois should be candidly advertised.

Before the war, pork, ham, and bacon were the most popular German food, but owing to the mistake of killing pigs in what I heard called the "pork panic" the Germans are to-day facing a remarkable shortage of their favourite meat.

During a temporary shortage of funds on his master's part, Jack and Bill's mother was sold to a planter in the northern part of the state.

There has been a woeful shortage of rain in the Punjab and Rajputana, and a famine seems imminentnot a great and universal famine, as, the monsoon having been irregular, only some districts have suffered to a serious extent, and they can be supplied from elsewhere, whereas in the great famine of 1901 the drought parched the whole land, and no help could be given by one State to another, all lying equally under the sun's curse.

It was an artificial shortage made possible by German demands, and made intentional by Jemal's policy.

Thus, too, though in February 1917 there was a daily shortage in Smyrna of 700 sacks of flour, and the Arab and Greek population was starving, no flour at all was allowed to be imported into Smyrna.