Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-11-14
Same Systematic Methods by
Which Starving Belgium
Was Fed to Be Used to
Provide Adequate Relief.
SHIPS FREED FROM
WAR USE AVAILABLE
Matter Is to Be Taken Up I'm
mediateIy With Allied Gov
eminent and Work Begin as
Soon as Order Restored,
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Washington, Nov. 13.-President
Wilson has sent a reassuring message
to the people in reply to the appeal
from Chancellor Ebert. He promises
to aid Germany in the matter of food
supplies and in relieving distressing
want.
The reply was sent today by Secre,
tary Lansing through Minister Sulzer,
of Switzerland, who delivered yester-
day Ebert's request for intervention
by the president to mitigate the fear
full conditions" threatened through
enforcement of the armistice terms.
1T says steps are to be taken at once
to organize relief work in the same
systematic manner in which it was
carried out in Belgium, but that the
president desires to be assured that
public order will be maintained in
:, a:ss.sg assslsa an equitable dis.
tribution of food can be clearly guar
anteed.
VIII Send Food.
Secretary Lansings note to the
Swiss minister dated November IL,
follows.
II have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your note of today
transmitting to the president the text
of a cable inquiring whether this gov
ernnient is ready to send foodstuffs
into Germany without delay if public
order is maintained in Germany and
an equitable distribution of food is
guaranteed.
"I should be grateful if you would
transmit the following reply to the
German government:
AT a joint session of the two
houses of congress on November 1lth
the president of the United States an
nounced the representatives of the as
sociated governments in the supreme
war council at Versailles have by
unanimous resolution assured the
peoples Of the central empires that
every thing that is possible in the cir
cumstances will be done to supply
them with food and relieve the dis
tressing want that is in SO many
places threatening their very lives;
and that steps are to be taken imme-
diately to organize these efforts at
relief in the same systematic manner
that they were organized in the case
of Belgium.
More Tonnage Available.
Furthermore, the president ex-
pressed the opinion that by the use
of the idle tonnage of the central em-
pires II ought presently to be possible
to lift the fear of utter misery from
their oppressed populations and set
their minds and energies free for the
great and hazardous tasks of political
reconstruction which now face them
on every hand.
Accordingly the president now di-
rects me to state that he is ready to
consider favorably the supplying of
foodstuffs to Germany and to take up
the matter Immediately with the al
lied governments, provided he can be
assured that public order is being
and will continue to be maintained in
Germany, and that an equitable dis
tribution of food can be clearly guar
anteed.
Accept, sir, the renewed assurances
of my highest consideration.
(Signed) Robert Lansing"
This message was sent in response
to the following message from Min
lister Sulzer:
"By direction of my government. I
have the honor to transmit the fol-
lowing cable:
The German government urgent
" requests the president of the Unit
ed states to inform the German chan
cellor Ebert by wireless whether he
may be assured that the government
of the United States is ready to send
foodstuffs without delay If public or
der is maintained in Germany and an
equitable distribution of food is guar
anteed.'
accept, sir, the renewed assurances
of my highest consideration