El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-30
starvation IN
CENTRAL EUROPE
Rations Soon to Be Re
duced, No Clothes, Indus
tries All Crippled.
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tries All Crippled.
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Egypt and British India are the main
] sources Of the supply OF cotton ne
I continued Australia is by tar the
I largest SURGE Of So ply Of wool and
save for Argentine and the Dutcn
Indies. the extra European sources
Of supDlv for all other raw nate
rails are almost II not altogether
monopolized by those new in arms
AGAINST Germany. Tt WILL then, De
omen TO the allies TO say that none
| Of these products-foOd, cotton, wool,
ores. lubricants, machinery, steel
"a fIyvavs. girders, etc.-shau be open
I to non-allied a. an
Allies Must IobOIize supply.
"Apart altogether from any gov
eminent fixing Of prices, the raising
| Of prices by German or Austrian
competition can thus, and certainly
will be thus, avoided And as II is
certain that It viii take great many
years before the manufactures OF
] Belgium. France, Italy and Englalu
are back at their old level. it is equal
" certain that THE ALLIED
MONOPOLY OF ALLIED SUPPLY
SOURCES MUST BE FORCIBLf
MAINTAINED. Not until all our needs
are met can the ex-enemy have any
thing"
ply Of food and commodities for the
allies in the reconstruction period
depends on control Of shipping AR.
Pollen estimates that ONE-HALE'
GERMANT'S PRE- WAR SHIPPING
HAS BEEN SEIZED OR SUNK, and
that little mercantile building has
been done during the var. Accord
inEly. he expects not more than three
million tons OF German shipping 10
be afloat when peace comes Even
eel
partly make up for submarine losses,
this tonnage is too small to mate
rally affect the German food and
material crisis for long time. while
German ships TO trade at all must
get British bunker coal. and II the
allies viii not at first sell food and
raw materials 70 Germany, the enemy
ship owners may be compelled TO
charter their useless tonnage to for
eign firms.
Victory Turns to Ashes.
Such is the prospect for Germany,
that makes the victories Of her
armies turn TO ashes in her mouth
How cherries is her outlook can be
appreciated from some unpublished
facts regarding food and raw mate
rial conditions in central Europe to-
day that have just been placed at
my disposal
Under secretary Of state Won Braun /
at the beginning Of this month gave /
in a private address 10 the saxon 4
Agricultural council a far from en- I
couraging description OF tn food
situation in the empire. he admit
ted failures in the present system OF I
distribution. but said that the new
proposals for putting the control OF ]
German food into the hands Of agrl- ]
cultural organizations cannot 90 into /
effect before the next harvest year I
As TO present food conditions, he
said
1--WE shall get through all right
with the bread corn, thanks to the
early tlreshing arrangements. which i
must be repeated In 1918 whether
there will again be a temporary re-
ductiOn OF the bread ration is not
yet clear 10 would then again have
TO be replaced by increased ratons
Of other f0odstuffs The manufac-
ture Of barley and cat food prepa-
ratiOns must, unfortunately, be re-
stricted because the harvest was
poor and there are iusuperable diill-
culties in the way OF sufficient
the factories The potato supply for
the winter is assured There are
also sufficient stocks 10 maintain the I
present bread ration until April The
supply Of milk, butter and fat is
not very hopeful The present meat
rate for the present
German Rations Must Be Cut.
From his speech, IL may be inferred
that the German authorities fear they I
viii have TO reduce the meat ration /
at any time, -he potato ration after /
April, and the bread ration during /
the spring.
Despite the slavery Of war prison |
ers. German agriculture suffers from /
shortage OF labor 20 an alarming de- ]
gree. School children are now COM 1
PEELED to work in the fields, but !
farmers declare that boys and girls, /
enfeeoled by hunger, cannot do the I
heavy work required. while the I
scarcity OF fodder FOR more than a I
year has left the farm horses so
weak that in many parts Of Germany
there are animals scarcely able to /
drag themselves about and quite un-
able 10 pull the plough. AT a meet
ing Of the Hanover chamber Of agri-
culture one speaker declared that
with such animals he doubted wheth-
ried out at all
FOOD CONDITIONS IN HUGARY
ARE WORSE THAN IN GERMANY
AND IN AUSTRIA MORE GRAVE
THAN IN HUNGARY. Bitter Quarrels
between Austria and Hungary are in
progress The Austrians want more
food from their none too well fed
neighbor, and smuggling across the
Austro Hungarian frontier has
reached huge proportions.
rood by AtrGhlng.
Hungarian frontier guards are
very watchful but recently IL was
discovered that food was being taken
from Eraekujvar in Hungary 70 Vi
emma by airship-
As the military gasbag passed
overhead a bag fell out and struck
the station master. at a small railway
station. on the head. The bag burst,
scattering flour on the ground. An
followed The occu-
pants OF the balloon had camouflaged
their food supply by filling the sand
ballast bags with flour.
With their own people in dire
straits at home, the German armies
are advancing IN the east What
terrible conditions Of famine and
1estilence the enemy encounters as
he advances may be judged from
The following trustworthy report Of
conditions in MOldavia, the unoccu-
pied province Of Rumania: a report
which could be duplicated from many
parts Of Russia
Russia short Of Food.
THE deficiency Of bread corn up
10 the next harvest amounts to 5000
trucks. This is due partly to the
lad harvest, but especially TO the
act that the corn taken by the Rus
iians from the country was not re-
placed These figures are taken from ,