The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-25
AUSTRIA HAS FOOD
 10 NEXT HARVEST
TO MAKE SUPPLY LAST UNTIL OTHER COMES IN IS PROPo.
 SETON BEFORE VIENNA.
Had Made Purchases Previous to the War but Unfortunately These Had Not Been Delivered as Scheduled.

Venice. April l9.-There have been so many contradictory rumors of tle state of the food supply in Vienna that it is interesting to find in the latest issue of the Neue Winner Jour nal a verbatim report of a speech on this subject by the Burgomaster of Vienna, Dr. Weiskrchuer. He saya in part:
 "We shall not starve. but we must so arrange our consumption of food that we can last out till the next har- vest. l can say confidently that the municipality has done everything that lies in its power Anticipating the coming state of affairs, l began buy ing in supplies of flour as early as last August In that month alone bought five hundred thousand dollars worth of foodstuffs, and since then we have expended three million dol- lars more in the same way.
 q am not to blame for the fact that certain contracts which We placed have not been fulfilled The blame for this rests with certain of our ueu- tral neighbors In Rumauia we plac- ed contract for several thousand wagon loads of wheat, but we have not yet received a single wagon. The Rumanians took the money. but have so far kept the wheat in their own territory
 'Let me give you another example of our difficulties. | purchased in Rumania 200 car loads of beans, bu the consignment could not be immed- ately delivered owing to the shortage of cars on the railroads. Now Bu. mania has placed an export tax of 5000 in gold on each car load
 Tn September last purchased wheat in America. The ship was for tunate enough to reach Genoa with out being molested. But Italy now refuses to let the wheat pass through to us, an it has therefore had to be sold in Genoa harbor
 Even from Hungary we have not yet received the wheat that we pur- chased. They should remember that we are making a common war, and the time is now come when Hungary must let Us have her surplus sup plies of food, even during peace time we have 10 depend On Hungary for wheat and corn Is the price we pay so poor? Thank Heaven, we are able 10 couliscate some large stocks Of maize at $5 a bundredWeight. and We have been living on it for long time Do you know what price Hungary de mands for maize now? over $9 a hun dredweight.
 'It is a question which touches most deeply the people of Vienna Hungary must let us have her sur plus, and that at no higher price than our sister state can decently demand If it be true that Hungary is going to send us her surplus, | think We shall be safe. But we must make sacri- fees ourselves by using inferior flour and by limiting our food to the mini mum ration which will see Us through to the next harvest"
 AlttI toiIlDldiHlNS III tue SN NleHl OI bread tickets which the government has been compelled to adopt the Bur gomaster continued:
 "Were it not that nave the people of Vienna at my back We should wt-l ness a spectacle terrible to imagine Il am giving you the plain facts so that you can enlighten others. There are thousands of people who never read the newspapers or glance at the proc l lamations. You must explain to them how things stand. in order to prevent any public unrest at the outset. You must not lose your bread tickets, for you will net get new ones.
 'I pray every day to God that the system of wheat distribution in war willworl out so that may obtain the requisite flour. Had I not prepared l carefully in advance. and had the se- cret flour reserves of the municipality | not been distributed at the critical moment, Vienna would have found it.