Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-01-15
WILL NEED PORK PRODUCTS.
Every Pound We Can Export BefoEt
Next July Needed by Europe:

The following cable message Eas
been received by the U. S. Food I'D.
ministration from Mr.. Hoover in
1 London:
| Every pound of pork products We
/ can export before next July, Europe
will need, and as soon as the initial
chaos of the sudden economic change
from war to- armistice can be over
come, there will be over-demands.
For another month, we will be un-
able to determine what the volume
of this task is"
The following cablegram has been
received at the Food Administration
from Mr.. Hoover in Paris:
The first cargo of food stuffs ship
ped through the cooperation of the
War Department and Food Admins
I tration has arrived at Trieste and
other cargoes should arrive at Cat
taro and other points on the Adri-
attic Sea in the next three days.
These supplies are intended for
Serbia and the territory recently
,amalgamated with Serbia in Bosnia
and Montenegro, where the distress
is very acute. The only connection is
by railroad from the Adriatic Sea,
the Bulgarians having destroyed the
railroad from Salonica, Greece, be-
yond the possibility of repair inside
of four months.
Colonel Mcintosh has already ar
rived in Trieste, Austria. Colonel At
wood and staff leave tonight for
Raguesa enroute for Belgrade, leav-
ing representatives at Cattare AMI
other points. DR.. Vernon Kellogg,
Colonel Grove and Hugh Gibson
leave Berne tonight by special train
for Warsaw, by way of Vienna, to
take charge of relief measures which
it is hoped to develop for Poland
A commission representing the
American, French, British and ittssit-
ian governments, under the chair
manship of DR.. Alonzo Taylor with
the assistance of Captain t. t. c..
Gregory of the U. sIArmy, is leav-
ing tonight for Vienna in response
to representations as to the danger
Gus situation which has developed in
that city. The representatives of the
Vienna municipalities now at Berne
state that food supplies for the two
million people in the city of Vienna
Twill not last more than ten days.
Owing to the disorganizatioh Of rail-
roads in Austria and the separating
of Hungary and Czecho-Slovakia
Vienna is practically cut off from
any supplies.
4 So far the Bolsheviki have been
kept under control In Vienna, but
1 advices indicate that unless food
stuffs can be furnished for the city
lit will be impossible to maintain or,
der. The Swiss government is pro-
posing to forward at once about q
weeks supply for the city, but the
lsituation in Switzerland will not per-
nit of their giving more than a few
days relief.
| The American and Allied Ministers
in Roumania have telegraphed to
their respective governments that
after investigating, they are convinc-
led that the food supply of Roumania
will not last for more than another
thirty days and that immediate steps
for relief must be taken If the coun-
try is not submerged by Bolshevism
Methods OF relief are under consider
alton, but present extreme difficult
lies. The railroads of Roumania are
largely broken down. There is 2
great deal of port destruction and
there is no bunker coal in the Black
Sea except what can be borrowed
from the Allied navies. Further,
Roumania is entirely without funds
to pay for food.