The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-07
HOOVER SENDS
KE0KUk CABLE
-. in some Detail What Food Con-
servation Must be Maintained
Hero in the Light OF
Conditions.
ELDER GIVES IT OUT
Iork Demanded VIII be Tremendous
on America, and Some Cities
Full Of People are Almost
Starving Now.

mis- morning ]. F. Elder. Lee
ounty food administrator, received
70 cablegrams from Herbert Hoover,
Trough j. f. Deems, indicating the
ktent and character of the work cut
II for the food administration.
ono from London states that Amer
D viii have to supply all OF the
III available for export up to July
which means an intensive conser-
htion campaign.
Another from Paris says that the
nm 200 people in Vienna had ten
avs, supply Of food on hand on jan
nv and that Roumania has not
exceed thirty days supply of food.
eolshevism 10 the Danger.
II Is not starvation alone that these
eople face, but bolshevism
In view of the fact that these
kilograms convey the first definite
FORMATION as to the work the food
administration probably will have yet
1 do and embody new and interest
10 information as to the actual food
bnditions in Europe, Mr.. Elder gave
hem to The Gate City for publica-
on.
| The following cable message is the
ne from Mr.. Hoover in London:
We Must Furnish the Pork.
Every pound of pork products we
hn export before next July Europe
I'M need, and as soon as the initial
haos of the sudden economic change
Fom war to armistice can be over
bme, there will be Over-demands.
Tor another month, we will be un-
Bile to determine what the volume OF
bis task is:
The following cablegram came from
[r. Hoover in Paris:
"The first cargo of food stuffS
,hipped through the cooperation OF
|he war department and food admin
'stration has arrived at Trieste and
Sther cargoes should arrive at Cat
hro and other points on the Adriatic
lea in the next three days. These
Bupplies are intended for Serbia and
lhe territory recently amalgamated
with Serbia in Bosnia and Monte
negro, where the distress is very
kcute The only connection is by
railroad from the Adriatic sea, the
Bulgarians having destroyed the rail-
load from Salonica, Greece, beyond
he possibility of repair inside of
Jour months.
Hoover Busy on the Job.
Colonel Mcintosh has already ar
tived in Trieste, Austria. Colonel At
good and staff leave tonight for
kagusa enroute for Belgrade, leaving
representatives at Cattaro and other
POINTS. DR.. Vernon Kellogg. Colonel
Frove and Hugh Gibson leave Berne
pnight by special train for Warsaw,
~ way of Vienna, to take charge of
|elief measures which it is hoped to
Fevelop for Poland.
"A commission representing the
american, French, British and Italian
lovernments, under the Craftsmanship
4 Doctor Alonzo Taylor with the as
Hstance of Captain L. T. c. Gregory
the q. s. army, Is leaving tonight
pr Vienna in response to representa-
ons as TO the dangerous situation
(hich has developed in that city.
ne representatives of the Viennese
municipalities now at Berne state
pat food supplies for the two mil
on people in the city of Vienna will
|ot last for more than ten days.
wing to the disorganization of rail
pads in Austria and the separating
Hungary and Czecho-Slovakia
Jenna is practically cut off from any
Ppplies.
Swiss Act..as Stop Gap.
SO far the bolsheviki have been
ept under control in Vienna, but ad-
ces Indicate that unless foodstuffs
be furnished for the city 1t will
impossible to maintain order. The
Mss government is proposing to