Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-12
AME R|CAN RELIEF
IN RACE AGAINST
GERMAN ANARCHY
Government Exploits Arrival of.
First Food From the u, ST.
in Berlin to Offset Growing
BoISheviSt Propaganda,
BY Cyril Brown.
Copyright, 1919. by the Press Publish
ing Co
(The New York World,)
Especial Gable Dispatch.)


is developing into neck-and- neck
race between American food and Boil
shevism. To check the Spartacan un-
rest, the government has begun an in
tensive home propaganda exploiting
the arrival in Berlin of the first food
from America-300 tons of flour The
government also predicted the arrival
of large shipments of fats and bacon,
for which the lean Teutons most
yearn The government promises in
creased rations of fats as an Easter
present.
The first beneficiaries will be the
industrial centers. cities of more than
$4,000 inhabitants. Special new fod
cards will be issued emitting the hold
ers to buy American foodstuffs, The
per capita weekly rations will be, tenn
porarily four and half ounces of ba-
con and one and three-quarter ounces
of fat, distributed through the exist
ing food control system at minimum
cost of 6 marks pound (about
$1.4D. There will also be weekly
per capita flour ration of nine ounces
at a maximum price of 2 marks and
half pound (nominally about 60
cents).
Hamburg Gets United States Flour.
The underfed Germans were also
very glad to learn today that Hamburg
was the first German city to eat
American food since the United States
entered the war, American flour hav-
ing been distributed in that city yes
terday.
The Berlin Tageblatt, which is play
ing pro-British politics and has be-
however that the price of American
flour is so high that the proletariat
and the middle classes cannot afford
to buy it, so the effect will be that it
will benefit only the wealthy, who are
already able to obtain an adequatel
food supply by Illegal means. The
Tageblatt adds:
Thus America thanks us for thel
surrender of our ships. whereby
America will do splendid businessi
at the expenses of our exhausted
nation. This is nothing but scorhing
US"
The Tageblatt says further that
in the process of unloading an Ameri-
can foodship AN ungodly amount of
food was stolen and that already forty
longshoremen have been arrested forI
stealing flour,
Warn About Next Harvest
So that the German people will not
be led to squander food by excessive
optimism aroused by the arrival of
American supplies the government isl
letting it be known widely that the
next harvest will be a very poor one, !
claiming that with most favorable
weather the harvest cannot possibly
EXCEED one-half the normal.
Despite the satisfaction that the ar
rival of American food is causing, un- f,
rest among the masses is increasing. |
The internal fate of Germany con-
tinues to tremble in the balance and |
the struggle between the forces of
order and anarchy VIII be protracted. |
The final decision probably will not |
come for five or six weeks. The SUBJ
sidence of Germany's Chauvinstic at
titude on the Danzig question caused !
increased confidence on the Berlin |
bourse today, prices showing a strong |
upward tendency.
On the other hand. the most serious
news of the day is the outbreak of a |
general strike IN Augsburg. Bavaria, /,
as a demonstration in favor of the i'm
mediate introduction of a soviet re- |
public in Bavaria. Thousands of
workers at mass meeting in Augs- |
burg were aroused to a frenzy of en-
thusiasm by Bolshevist demagogues |
who shouted in favor of the third
revolution" They adopted resolutions
declaring their solidarity with the
Russian and Hungarian soviet re-
publics and demanding the adoption
of a Bavarian soviet republic on the |!
Russian model
Mine Strike Is Growing.
Despite the governments attempt to |
make little of the Rheinish- West
phalian coal miners strike. the strike !
movement is gaining slow, continuous
strength. although there has been no
violence yet In Stuttgart the strike |
troubles continue. The executive COM
mittee of the united proletariat has
issued battle slogan.
"On with the general strike until
the military camarilla has disappear
ed from the streets and all our de-
mands have been fulfilled"
All railroad traffic is at a standstill |
from Friedrichshaven to the borders |
of Bavaria and Baden, In both Wurt-
temberg and Rhenish- Westphalia the |
crisis of the strike and its decision
should be reached in the next few
days. The manner in which the fer
ment of unrest is permeating all the
working classes is significantly indi-
Gated by the host of minor labor trou-
bles. 1t is typical that the employees
of the Darmstaed.er bank have voted
to strike.
In Berlin the strikers in the metal
trades now exceed $4,000. The hidden
conditions in Berlin can be gagged by
the present alarming high water mark
of the wave of crime Investigation
has disclosed that Berlin's police
force which before the war number
ed $4,000, has now shrunk to 1000
effectives. This leaves scarcely 900
men for each shift. or two policemen
for each beat on which 10000 people
dwell.
The loyal soldiers will assist the
decmated police force in future. To
combat the criminal elements, tactical
novelties are being introduced. These
include strong, flying patrols of auto
mobiles filled with soldiers who go out
at night in the attempt to end the JOY
riding in which Berln's robber and
burglar bands indulge while at the
same time they ply their nefarious
trade.
Are You Happy?
To be happy you must be well. II
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