The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-03-28

senior British port officer
In the harbor an American Admiral Billiard,
was at the head of the American naval hHairs
aboard the cruiser Birmingham Inc Amer
lean force ahoat consisted Of the four de-
stroyers Stribling, Gregory, Luce and Caesar
We heard that the Olympia Admiral Deweys
flagship at the battle of Manila bay ana
lately from the ice-bound Russisn port of Arch
angel was due to arrive in few days with an
outfit Of marines.
Food Prices Tumble.
AS TO the people Of Fiume. they were commenc-
ing to enjoy the fruits Of peace even though ther
town possessed q warlike aspect; the food DOCK
ade had been broken and high prices hhd tu"-
bed With the arrival Of the first allied foodsnlps
the terrible war prices common In Fiume, as wen
as In other portions Of Austria. became memory
The food control policy Of the Aastrians, as well
as the Germans, had been fundamentally wrong.
All through the the rich could buy roodstuHs'
and could hoard while the poor had to get along
the best way possible. Prices consequently NJ
tanned an unheard OF level
Rice. Of which large quantities consumed
even IN peace times, cost $40 pound, and soon
after the armistice was signed dropped to 40 cents
a pound which was high enough, everyone granted
During the war days wheat flour cost from 81
TO &c a pound; beet sugar retailed at 30 pound !;
corn flour cost "a pound Further north In Aus
tria prices were even higher
On account OF the shortage IN the supply Vi
linen and cotton goods the cost Of these materials
also scared Thread, during the war, cost $32
snno, in Fiumc One linen sheet cost $175 suit
of clothing made by tailor cost 5000, and an or
d,nary cotton shirt cost 500 Shoes made OF leatr-
or and leather substitutes brought 1925. Tea and
coffee. especially the latter which Is largely used
In the Balkans, cost $50 pound.
The death rate among the very young and the
,orv old was horrible during the war days. Not
on,v was the younger generation, born just prior
20 tho war; great sufferer from the 1000 snort
age but the babies born this year are physically
na mentally unfit This is true not only In Fiume
"a no Istrian PENINSULA but throughout Hungary
Ia Austria men who had Investigated the situa-
.,sto,d me American food experts verified the
statements.
In the minds eye Of italian officials Fume is
not q rarravaged city, but the beginning of Il
prosperous metropolis peopled by Italians largely
and open to the peoples of the world.
Itolv sacrificed 100000 men killed In action and
nearly a million wounded, in order to overcome
German domination through central Europe, and
also to restore TO Italy some or those lands that
arc adjacent to the motherland.
The Italians are advancing a strictly military
argument for possession of Fiume and a part OF
the Dalmatian coast at least. Not only these
lands largely peoped with Italians who speak the
language but the lands themselves possess nd
yantages In military way thai Italy must take
into consideration II she is to develop into first
class nation.
From Trieste, down the coast of the Adratic tc
Valona the coastline is rugged and contains scores
of harbors and nets which afford excellent shelter
10 enemy warcraft. The Italian coast from Venice
TO Brindis, the other side of the sea- is only iv,
hours stealning distance away for fast warshps
md the coast itself Is fiat and marshy and difficult
TO defend.