Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-05-26
IS STARVING?

Is the statement true that Germany is we'll supplied with foodsuft
as reported by the home papers and the "a office, Or has the nation
reached the point Of starvation? The question has become a mooted one,
and though nee in a while a word gets past the censorship to the effect
that the German people are actually suffering, the authorities are 50
insiIent they have everything they need that it does not seem possible
the country has got down to a condition of want. But there must be
something wrong, else there would be no stories of prvahon, and hardly
a day passes that something does not happen that gives color to that
belief.
One of the straightest stories to lend to the belief that the people
of Germany ire slowly starving to death is told by the Sacramento
Union. which publishes IN interview with Austrian of repute who
has just returned to California. The Unions story is as follows:
austria and Germany ire starving, England, France and Russia are
living in abundance declares John Pavoclavicn, naturaized Austrian
residing at 96 N street who returned late last week. from Austria
where he had been visiting previous to the breaking out of the European
war. He started to work last Monday in the Southern Pacific shops
where he is well known.
now fighting under an unusual strain because of the lack of rations,
and that unless there is some decided turn in their favor the end cannot
be Jar away. 1t has developed that the soldiers ire fighting for food and
suHenance rather than for home or country.
Grain and -four are nod luxures. Bread is being made out OF a
meal made from wheat and oat hay. Pavoclavich declares that a week
before leaving Austria he procured some army bread and that it as
very dark, glhtenng with little specks of shiny straw and inferior to tn
dog biscuit as it is known in the United States.
"He said further that it is erroneous to declare that the a has
developed into OF finances and fighting forces. 1t is a war wherein
food supply would cut the greatest figure, and it is apparent that Ger
many and Austria are OF the verge of exhaustion while the French and
English armies have plenty with no apparent decrease in the supply.
Russia is reported by him al a nation impossible to starve because or
its great grain fields. He declared that it va his information even
while in Austria, a hostile nation, that Russian soldiers we're the best
fed of the Allies, and that just as soon as the course through the Black
lei and Dardaneles a opened, Russia could indefinitely supply the
armies of both France and England with provisions.
Pavoclavich declared that the blockade of the German empire by the
British and French squadrons was complete, effective and cannot be dis
turbed for any length of time, while on the other hand Germanys
blockade of England and France is conceded to be partial, and only
noticeable when passenger ships are sent down and sensation fellows
the report of a long death list. Germany, he says, is slowly starving
to death and both her soldiers and those of Austria are so poorly fed
that their united fighting strength cannot continue.
"Pavoclavich is a nephew of Marco Zarich, n of the building m
pioycs of the state capitol building"