The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-11
Long War VIII Force Nation to
Give In or Starve.
Three Months HOstilities Will
Bring on Hunger.
RELY ON RESOURCES
Over Populated Country Must
Depend ON Imports.
German Government Claims
Has Food for q Year.

Has Food for q Year.
Detroit, Mich, Aug. 11.-"Germany
must reckon with starvation. With the
British fleet commanding the North
sea and the French navy blockading
the ports Of the Adriatic. the Teutons
will be completely cut off from all
war is prolonged for three months.
terms with Fraxce and Great Britain"
This prediction is made by r. N.
Goode. who has just arrived in Detroit
from Paris. He crossed the Atlantic
on the Lorraine, one of the last French
liners to dock in New York.
Points Out Famine Danger.
M. Goode points out that Germany is
over populated and cannot rely on its
own resources to feed its millions. That
is why the kaiser has made such des-
perate efforts to force the hands of the
other powers, he declares.
NJ. Goode says when he left Paris ten
days ago he had no intimation that the
Austro-Servian dispute was to culmi-
nate in a great continental war;. He ex-
pressed 10 surprise. however, that this
pretext should be sufficient to explode
the bomb that has been smoldering for
many years.
War Was Bound TO Come.
This war;" he asserts, has been pre-
saged for a long time. Each of the
great powers has been developing its
army and navy to the highest degree OF
efficiency. The EXPLOSION was only a
matter of time, and the Servian AFFAIR
was the cap that set 1t on.
THE French are entering into this
contest with eyes wide open. They are
not plung1ng into the struggle blindly,
actuated by feverish Latin enth :siasm.
but are going about their preparations
silently and grimly. determined to
make 1t fight to the finish.
Realize Task Is Big One.
with all their hatred for the leu
tons. they do not underestimate Ger
many's strength. but realize that the
task that lies before them is q stupen-
dous one.
France will not be beaten this time
even II Germany is able to seize Paris
war. The spirit of nationalism that
pervades France is illustrated in the
striking heroism OF the aviator Gar
rOs. who ramned the monster Yep
pelin with his light plane, riding as
he knew to certain death, but with the
knowledge that he was carrying with
him to destruction q large number of
the enemy. The French will fight as
long as there Is a Frenchman left who
can stand on two legs"
Claims Food for . Year.
London, Aug. ia special COM
in Germany reports that the country
has a sufficient stock OF food to last
for q year.
Russia Can Feed Herself.
Washington, Aug. 1.-THE relative
positions OF the triple entente and the
German-Austrian allies in control of
the sea for the shipment Of fOodstuffs
is strikingly illustrated in statistics
now being prepared by the depart
show that Of the triple entente Russia
alone produces food products more
than sufficient for her own needs.
Furthermore, the statistics show that
all the warning powers will be largely
dependent upon the United States for
the food with which to maintain their
armies.
Uncle Sam with bumper crops, with
wheat production Of q quarter of q
billion bushels more than the average
for the last ten years and occupying a
position Of absolute neutrality, will be
able to make pretty much his own
terms as to the privileges to be ac-
corded his merchant marine and as
to the prices to be paid for his
products.
These facts stand out strongly in con-
sidering the food products situation In
Europe.
OF the six nations at present embroil-
ed only one, Russia, produces more
wheat than it consumes. All the others
import wheat for home consumption.
Aside from Russia only two nations
produce more cereal Of any kind than
they consume. All others excepting
Germany and Austria Hungary are
fnWa %
consumption. Germany exports 1854
6O7 bushels of rye annually and Austria
Hungary raised 19,646,676 bushels more
OF barley annually than is consumed
within her borders.
In meat products the countries allied
with the triple entente produce nearly
twice as many cattle and flve times as
| many sheep as do Austria Hungary and
Germany combined. The Teutonic allies
however. produce about one third more
swine than their enemies.
Shortage of Wheat.
| Germany and Austria-Hungary
with a total population of 11O.432,-
of 72.446.46S bushels. The average
yearly consumption per capita for
these two countries is 3.99 bushels un-
der ordinary circumstances.
The countries of the triple entente
face net shortage in wheat Of So
245,S42 bushels spread over q popu-
lation of 250.142.525. The average Of
per capita annually for the countries
that do not export is 7.72. Russia
alone of the countries in the triple en-
tente exports 150.876.00O bushels of
wheat annually. The United States
was the second largest exporter of
wheat in the world until this year.
Her bumper crop is expected to place
! us in the lead within q mark far
above the 2O0.000,000 bushels mark.
In all probability our wheat exports
alone will be sufficient to absorb the
shortage which all the warning ma
tons face now. regardless of the fact
J, that Russia faces q shrinkage this
I year In her wheat crop.