The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-01
FOOD CARGOESI FOR STREAMS REACH TRIES f
Hoover Reports Sending of Special Missions to War saw and Vienna to Investi- gate Food Conditions in Those Cities
By Associated Press

Washington, December 31. Arrival at 'Triest of the first steamer carrying food supplies for the Serbians and the send ing of a special mission to War saw to organize food relief in Poland and another to Vienna to investigate food conditions there were announced in a ca blegram received at the food administration today from Her. bert C. Hoover at Paris.
 A commission has also left for Belgrade to take charge of the situations
 Conditions in Vienna and also. in Ru- mania were said to be desperate
 MT. Hoover said representatives, of ths Niennese municipalities now at. Berne. stated food supplies for the 2.0oeoQ people in the Austrian capital would not lasr more than 10 days. The Swiss governs ment, the cahlegram said. proposed to forward at once & weeks supply For Vienna.
 As to Rumania. the cabiegiam saiu ne American and allied ministers there had telegraphed they were convinced the food supplies would not last more than anothcr 30 days and that immediate steps for relief must be taken if the country IS not to be submerged into bolshevism.N
 TEXT OF CABLEGARM
 MT Hoover's cablegran reads:
 "The first cargo Of foodstuffs shipped through the cooperation Of the war de- partment and food administration has arr rived at Triest and other caIsoes should arrive at Cattaro and other points on the Adriatic sea in the next three days. These supplies are intended for Serbia and the territory recently amalgaipatsfk with Sergia in Bosnia Aitd Monee itextQts where the distress is very aeuSes T1f8 only connection is by the railread zuy Adriatic sea, the Bulgarians having 0e-2 stroyed the railroad from Sa tQns:<f. Greece beyond the possiblil& of renaicI lnsiGe of four months, a3lz 5 "Colonel Mcintosh has already a in Priest, Austria. GoionesS 4Arwocat 4{fft staff leave tonight for Ragusa en ToA<& for Belgrade, leaving representati NeF nt7 Cattaro and other points,
 1 pr Vernon Kellogg, Colonel Grove and
 
 Wai train for Wafsaw, py s2y of NSenss4ss to take aG nuig .ot relief measures whs@'a i 1t is hoped to develop fer Poland. LEAVE FOR VIENNA l "A commission representing the Amer- l ican. French, British and Italian govefu-i l.ments, under the chairmanship of A}r* | Alonzo Taylor with the assistaiace 1< | Capt. IT. T. c. Gregory of the Iptt44
 States army is leaving tonight HOT ! enna in response to representation9A A0z ] the dangerous situation which hA43
 veloped tn that city The represenf4E 1 of the viennesef municipalities itoH
 Berne state that food supplied for l GOO, ,005 people in the city Of VienHA E not last for more than 10 days. OW1n | the disorganization of railroan nA l Austria and the separating of HunH@< and (,zecho- -Slovakia, Vienna is W&Ex 1 tically cut off from any supplies. i "So far the bolsheviki have been N.3s under control in Vienna, but advicee lHse | dicate that unless foodstuffs can be 444& ' nished for the city it will be impos1lu49 to maintain order The Swiss goY<<ne ment is proposing to forward at QNs& about "a weeks supply for the ctyg DIE ] the situation in Switzerland willz# permit of their giving more than as4s& l days relief
 .,rhe Anne. can and allied ministers IT l Rumania have teieErapned to tnei iFff4|F spective governments, that, after nk@ l tigating they are convinced that thes st4SM ! supply of Ru,nania will not last for n195x l than another 30 days and that inme04SS steps for relief must be taken &4
 country is not to be submerged by 1Q1s shevism. V ! Methods of rej'ef are under consioe5z ton. but with extreme difficulties railroads of Rumania are largely pFo4S ff,f..
 strmntion. and there is no bunker coal m la,a r,,on,, saa axeent what can be h0xs rowed from the allied navies. turtnSSe l Rumania is entirely without fun@
 pay for food