The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1917-03-17
EUROPE FAMINE THREATENED
Recent Reports From Germany
Regarding Food Conditions
There Portend Early
Peace Settlement

Salt Lake tribune: MUCH HUN
sinister than ever before are the
stories coming out of Germany abou'
food conditions. Apparently thest
stories are authentic, and not a par
of military strategy.
The world will be Mortified to heal
that the rate of suicide is increasing
and that parents are killing theil
children because they cannot obtair
food for them. Exceptional though
these cases may be, they are suffi-
Gent to show what the next few
months hold in store for the German
people. 1t will be a season of al
most universal distress from lack OF
sufficient food, and the period may
come, long looked for by Great Bri-
tain, when there will be such a FAM
inc that the governments of Berlin
and Vienna will be compelled to
make peace.
The condition that has been forced
upon them, the Germans are now try
ing to force upon Great Britain by
lawless submarine warfare. Both
sides have violated the law of nations
in an effort to starve each other.
The idea of starving an enemy into
submission is as old as warfare, but
it is one of the conditions of warfare
that humanity will fight against
from now on. The horror was not
so appalling when a city was besieged
and its food supply cut off. At
worst the people of the city could
surrender and perhaps not ever SER
iously affect the general military
situation. But nowadays whole ma
tons are besieged or blockaded and
civilians suffer more than the soldies.
One of the most conspicuous ex-
amples of a whole people besieged
and starved into submission is fur
nished by our Civil War. The south
was besieged by land and blockaded
by sea in the last years of the war.
Food and military supplies grew
scarcer and scarcer. And, although
the time never arrived when the peo-
pie were compelled to lay down their
arms for actual want of food, the
time did arrive when it was impos.
sible adequately to munition the
armies.
In his march to the sea Genera.
Sherman's army intensified the fam
inc and won the lasting hatred of the
southern people. In the north the
people considered the method o.
warfare legitimate and they had be
hind them history and tradition bacl
to the earliest ages. In the end TIN
war was won by what appeared t,
be stand-up fighting, but the fact be
hind the appearance was that thu
southern armies had been beaten BY
economic pressure.
There is little chance that in tn,
present death grapple of the nation
the starvation method will be aban
doned. but there is a possibility. 1
the Germans can so reduce tn
amount of shipping in the world a
to confront England and France witt
actual famine another deadlock ma,
be produced and the entente power
may agree to allow food to go int,
Germany in consideration of tn
abandonment of the German subma
rine blockade. At this stage of tn
war, however. the Germans appea
to be approaching that condition
which made it necessary for the soutl
to surrender. Germany is mucl
nearer starvation to-day than are tn
Allies, but the Allies could be re
duced to a similar state very rapid,
should the ruthless submarine cam
paige triumph. The crisis will no
be reached before Summer, an,
probably not until late Summer
Then the world will be able to tel
whether Germany has been able t
wrench loose from her throat the tai
.ons of famine and fasten them upol
che apa,ou