El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-06-08

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] was rejected.
No Dread in Prague.
If there is no bread IN Prague. for
I the rich" who earn more than SIS a
week, they are not likely to use their
] wealth TO buy meat on april 80,
/ after two breadless weeks. a Prague
3 newspaper announced This week
! Prague received one calf for the whole
I population o. the city The famine
I conditions are not confined 70 Bo-
] hemia, from Galicia. whence little in
] formation reaches the outside world,
/ the following cryptic but suggestive
I report has been received. Flour and
] bread are not on sale at Lemberg-
I The food office has been unable for
J the last week 20 give fun weight for
I the heavy workers bread cards. The
I town authorities have decided TO act
] on their own responsibility, and
evading the grain trade office regu-
lations, procure supplies"
To the anguished populations Of
Austria-HungarT and Germany. too.
the bOuudless food resources OF the
Ukraine have seemed like the pot Of
gold at the rainbow's end; the ignO-
rant peasants talk OF the grain and
cattle Of this land that thew think has
been delivered 10 them for plumber
much as our ancestors spoke OF the
mysterious indies. where the rocks
were OF gold.
Place Hope on Eruine.
The food supply OF the Ukraine has
become one OF the capital facts Of the
war. IF German and Austrian dreams
are realizabIe. the Ukraine can pro-
Ions the war Indefinitely. But IL is
now known here. and Of course TO in
. formed enemy circles. that the
Ukraine is a appointment. like the
submarine. This knowledge is being
kept from the people, whose Outburst
Of despair when they realize there is
no hope for more food is feared by
the rulers OF both central empires.
Dr. Fritz Wertheimer. sent into the
Ukraine TO study the prospects Of
on April the following report OF
what he found there. which must
have nightly distressed the German
and Austrian food dictatOrs when il
reached them:
Store Houses Empty.
'I have returned from a two days
journey OF over 100 miles through
agricultural and domain land I'm the
kief government during which 7 in
spected sugar factories. country
towns. villages, and two Of the large
Ukranian estates. In general my tour
confirmed the Impressions obtained
at kief from innumerab1e cOuvcrsa-
lions with experts. The hopes Of the
central powers for q Guild pro quo in
exchange for the military help given
TO the republic are 10 some extent
negatived by the actual position Of
affairs In silos and store houses
there are at present no supplies TO
get Doubtless the peasants have
considerable quantities. but these are
already much reduced, and grow
daily less owing 10 the regrettahle
practice Of feeding the animals with
the hest seed. and also owing TO the
secret still which almost every house
hold possesses There is more drunk
enness i'm the country than ever.
Thousands of tons Of grain are thus
wasted.
Apart from the question OF imme-
date deliveries. the prosnects for the
autumn. end the coming harvest
year, are disquieting. True. the win
ter seed was well soWn by big land
owners and peasants. and has come
well through the winter. Winter
crops were cultivated LARGELY and
some 45 per cent Of the culdvatable
land was thus used The problem is
what the harvest viii be like. The
Socialist attempt 20 seize all landed
property led In January TO n peas
ants war. in which irreparable dam
aCe was done Castles and mansions
were nillared and burned. farmhouees
robbed and reduced 20 ashes Ma
chimes have been destroyed or dam
aged
"Draught and breeding animals and
valua bic oxen have been stolen and
for the most part slaughtered. stall
lions scattered. seed plantations for
Grain and root crops DESTROYED. Of
the - farmhnuses on the Rranitzka
estate onlv 10 remain. Of the so on
n~inca Radziwi1rs estate only 10 OF
10 on the latter the total loss IL
reol-oned 1T $4,000. 600.
"lt is therefore questionable how
the harvest can be r7rried ont. Par
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