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LATE ENEMIES WILL GET FOOD
War Council Votes to Feed Hungry
People.-Starving Folk in Bull
garia and Austria-Hungary
May be Fed Soon.

America and the allies are plan
ming to cooperate in making avail
able as far as possible food and sup
plies for the demoralized civilian
population in enemy countries.
This became known Tuesday night
through the publication of message
from Col. E. M. House, at Paris, to
President Wilson saying the supreme
war council at Versailles had adopt
ed a resolution indicating its desire
to cooperate with Austria, Hungary
and Turkey in furnishing the neces-
stiles Of life for the suffering peoples
of these nations.
cat the conclusion Of the meeting
of the supreme war council Monday"
said Col. Houses message, 81 pro-
posed a resolution in the following
sense and the same was adopted:
"sThe supreme war council in ses-
sion at Versailles desires to cooper
ate with Austria, Turkey and Bull
garia in the making available as far
as possible of food and other sup
plies necessary for the lives of the
civilian population of those coun-
tries"
This announcement is expected to
= have far-reaching effect in Germany
where from all accounts, the food sit
uation is only a little less serious
than it is in the countries until re-
Gently allied with Germany in the
war. Conditions are particularly
serious in Austria Hungary, where
fooS riots have been frequent and
where there has been intense suffer
ing not alone for the want of food,
but clothing and other necessities.
Food Administrator Hoover, it
was said is working out new food
conservation plans to assure supplies
not only for the people of the nations
that have been eliminated from the
war, but also the liberated popula-
tions of Belgium, northern France,
and even Germany whether coun-
try has accepted armistice terms now
in the hands of Marshal Foch.
It is UNDERSTOOD that the plan con-
templated by Mr.. Hoover, but which
the president is not known to have
approved, provides for a rationing
system similar to that employed in
Belgium by the commission for relief
in Belgium, which was worked out by
Mr.. Hoover, chairman of the commits
sion, and his assistants on the basis
of the required number of calories
necessary for each individual. Sup
ervision of this rationing, it was said,
would be in charge Of representa-
tives of the allied and American gov
ernments. All available food sup
plies in the central powers would
first be. apportioned, including the
reserves, if any, held for the armies,
it was said.
A survey is now being made by the
food administration to determine the
worlds food supply. Pending its
completion the new food conserva-
ton plan for the American public is
held. up. The survey will include
close investigation of the interior
food supply available in Austria
Hungary and the Balkans. Officials
of the food administration are said
to believe that investigation will dis
close food supplies which have here
tofore not been available owing to
the dissension between the Teutonic
allies.
With Austria definitely out of the
war the opening Of the Mediterran
can and India route as we'll as the
so-called short Australian route will
release vast grain supplies and other
foodstuffs in that part of the world.
Austrian merchant ships, it was said,
may be used to transport these sup
plies.
The food program worked out by
the inter-allied food council, of
which Food Administrator Hoover
is a member, calls upon America to
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