Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-03-10
ECONOMY At HOME
TO I'm THIS WAR
COMBINED WITH PRESSURE TO
PREVENT SUPPLIES REACHING
6ERMANY-CONDITIONS IN AUS
TRIA AWFUL.

ROME, Mrch Ste Allies an
win this war only by holding on, by
the exertion Of economic pressure on
the Central Empires and by rigid econ
omy at home" in the opinion of DR..
Nassimo Pantaleoni of the Italian ar
my, who has just been exchanged af-
ter twenty mothns as a prisoner in
Austria and Hungary DR.. Pantaleoni,
although Italian by birth has many
relatives in the United States.
"The secret Of winning the war"
said DR.. Panta1eoni, remains in the
blockade and the allies at home ex-
ercising the greatest economy but so
organizing that economy in the way
of limitation of consumption of foods
and fuels and clothes that people will
not be compelled to lose several hours
of their time each day searching for
coal, or bread, or such articles.
1t is like passing from darkness into
daylight on leaving Austria, where the
stores are empty of all useful articles,
cloth sells at about the equivalent of
$26 yard, where leather shoes sell
for 1870 kronen the pair, where there
lis no sugar at all for sale, where the
bread rate for the civil population is
two and a half ounces for each per-
son per day. where the fat ration is
one quarter of an ounce and where
potatoes sell for twenty cents
pound, instead of two cents a pound be
fore the war.
In Austria mortality has increased
very much since year ago because
Of poor or no nourishment leading to
rheumatism and dysentry, and when
people die there are no collins in
which to bury them. Instead, their
shrouds are GOOD clothes are replaced
by rags and these they are buried.
Living conditions have not been i'm
proved by the taking of Rumania.
while in Hungary attending Italian
prisoners, who had been sent as far
away as possible from the Isonozo
front so that they could not escape
and go home, Roumanians told me
civil conditions had been such in Ru-
mania that the fields had not been
worked and therefore the crops had
been poor
GAS regards the entrance of the
United States into the war, both Ger
mans and Austrians said the effective
result would be more in money and
materials furnished than in fighting
units, due to difficulties Of troop trans
portation. They say that it is hardly
worth while attempting to capture or
destroy enemy artillery because new
cannon will be forthcoming from the
United States.
''The Austrian people have been in
different about the war for long time
They want peace, any kind of a peace.
and the longer the war lasts the less
they have to keep the war going. The
Germans are still possessed of the
monomania of domination, Of wishing
to grab all they see, to take, take; but
time is sure to bring them to their
knees, to cut down their fighting ma
terials, must win if they resist, if they
exert economic pressure on them
selves, and refuse to patch up peace.
1.-THE Germans now are seriously
afraid of the. English and French, be-
cause they realize their superiority
in fighting materials
All that has been said about the
i'll treatment of the prisoners is true.
They are so poorly fed that if they
fall i'll they are sure to die, as their
bodies have no resisting power. Most
Of their illnesses are in the intestires
or of a bronchial nature leading to
tuberculosis. Their food consists, in
the camps, of soup made of beets in
the proportion of one-half pound a
day foreach man, with sometimes a
potato and two ounces of meat once
week. In the hospital of Sigmunds-
berg where served, hospital ar
ranged for 5000 men, the death roll
has risen from one man every two
days to three and four day.
Prisoners put on government work
last about two months. The phrase
prisoners step has passed into the
language, so feebly do the gangs
shuttle along, without power to lift
their feet from the ground. Also, the
Austrian soldiers are very cruel, shoot
ing or bayoneting prisoners for the
slightest infraction of rules"
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