Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-21
GERMANY BREAKS PROMISE OF FOOD
 FOX AUSTR|ANS
Conditions Rapidly Nearing the Breaking Point in
 Duel Monarchy.

Amsterdam, Wednesday, June 19.-- The Berlin Vorwaerts, the German Socialist organ, in announcing the in- crease in the price of bread to five pfennings per pound, says this p1ce will bring the land owners one bil- lion marks surplus profits and neces- sarily will be followed by increases in the cost of milk, butter and beef.
 The Socialist party, says the news paper, has formally protested to the government on the ground that the increases will be sure to create the greatest of illfeeling.
 Matters in Austria are rapidly ap- preaching the breaking point. The Vienna Arbeiter Zietung, which was received here last night, says that re- presentatives of the government owned mines, printing works, mint, telegraphs and posts, secured an au- dience with the premier, Dr. von Seyd- Ter, and the finance minister, Dr. von Winner, on Friday. Deputy Glo, eckel, acting as spokesman for the emn said that the lowering of the workers efficiency was attributable not to i'll will, but entirely to under feeding, and that the state employees needed an increase in wages of 50 per cent in order to live at all.
 Expense Limit Reached.
 Dr. von Winner replied that the utmost limit of expense had already been reached and that the state could noe possibly bear a heavier burden. All he could promise was further dis cussion" next fall.
 The Arbelter Zietung in heavily censored article speaks of dire dis tress outside of Vienna and in places where war industries have been estab- lished. In many communities, 1t says the people have had no potatoes fol four months and that no fats Or foluur have been dis tributed. Children are ing to school hungry. In one place near Vienna bread supplies sufficient for two days are supposed to last for a whole week. The newspapers com- plains of the paucity of supplies from Ukraine. The rest of the article was censored.
 New Harvest.
 A decree was issued at Vienna today regulating the management of the new harvest, as has already been done in Germany and Hungary, strictly in accordance with the state needs. The decree is necessitated by the fact that Austria enters the new harvest year without any stocks whatever.
 The decree provides for the appoint ment of special district commissions to collect the harvest and the authori- ties are empowered to speed ur threshing.
 According to the Cologne Gazette's Vienna correspondent, the municipal council has adopted resolution ap- pealing to Germany, Hungary and Ba- varia for imports of old potatoes.
 According to Berlin esmi-official news agency, a supply of grain ol bread from German stocks is impos sible.
 No Food from Germany.
 The Cologne Gazette's Berlin dis patch declares authoritatively that there is no question of non-fulfillment of German obligations to supply grain to Austria because Germany has not been in a position to forward such supplies. Owing to unforeseen diff faculties the promises to Austria as regards Ukraine grain have not been fulfilled in recent weeks. In this mat ter that paper explains Germany was not to be blamed, having met Austria ,,, o y,,oct uopororc manner