The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-05-03

ICnal toOdStuffS were m lfleSt await ing transportation to the Czecho-Sio- walks.
 An appeal by Dr. Alice G. Masaryk daughter of President Masryk, ani head of the Czecho-Slovak Red Cross, written on February 20, pictures the conditions in her country as terrible one. American, British and French au thoritieS are endeavoring to respond.
 It is stated that, unless help arriv- cd quickly, a million children under six years old were doomed to die; that 2.00O,000 children up to IA years were weak from underfeeding and that the mortality among the old and feeble was appalling.
 Separated from the Allied territor- ieS on three sides by Germany and Austria, the Czecho- -Slovak republic was, even before it's birth, ruthlesSiy and systematically denuded by tEe AuStrians of all foodstuffs and SuI- plies. When hoStilities were suspended, there was in Czecho- -Slovakia no corn, meat. clothing or medicines. The scaa- ty weekly ration of a pound of flour to each person in Prague, the capita. ceased on February 20. Two-t thirds of the cattle and pigs of the country a,- ready have been slaughtered and th2 lack of fat is extreme. The supply If milk was only one-thirtieth of normal. More than so percent of the babies of Prague were rachitic, anaemic or con Sumptive. More than half the patients in the children'S hospital died of co'- sumption.
 In the mining districts the position aS reported here, is still worse. At Kladno, 1l6 of the 165 babies born in 1918 died of consumption. Births throughout the country have decreas- ed one-half and deaths have increased 70 percent.
 AlmShouseS, maternity hospitals and other charitable institutions can no longer feed their inmates. Nineteen percent of the infants under one year in PilSen, the formerly flouriShing city of brewerieS and arsenal workers died last year from lack of nutrition. Prit' eS of household commodities have riS- en 700 to 500 percent while wagc: have increased 200 to 200 percent Clothing costs ten times more than formerly and sewing cotton is l09 times dearer than before the war. These reports show that Professor Thomas G. Masaryk, the first preSi dent of the new Czecho-Slovak repuG- lie. who went from New York las. winter to assume his duties, faces q hcrculean task. Writing to Lady Mur- icl Paget on February l9, the preSi. dents daughter told her, father said he hoped you would come. Do come and help us" Lady Paget has obtained from the French Government, 70 trucks which the American Red Cross has filled with medical supplies for the Czecho-Slovaks, and plans to take to Bohemia 20 tons of rice. Recent in formation however, states that freight traffic to Bohemia is disol- ganized and the fear is expressed that the Austrian threat, ''If We are to los: Bohemia, we shall lose her as corpse may become terrible reality.
 Professor Masaryk was in the Unit cd States in October last when he was elected president of the new republ's of Czecho-Slovakia. On receiving the notice of his election he went to Pra- gue and was inaugurated president late in December. In the latter part of March it was reported that he had re. signed, but this was officially denied by the Czecho- -Slovak Mission in Washington.
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