Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-01
FOOD STEAMER. FOR STREAMS.
 REACH TR|EST|
Hoover to Organize Food Commissions to Relieve Suffering is Announced.

Washington, Dec. 31.-Arrival at Trieste of the first steamer carry ing food supplied for the Serbians and the sending of a special mission to Warsaw to organize food relief in Poland, and another to Vienna to Investigate food conditions there were announced in a cablegram re- ceived at the food administration to- day from Herbert c. Hoover, at Par IS. A commission also has left for Belgrade to take charge of the situ- ation there.
 Conditions in Vienna and also in Rumania were said to be desperate. Mr Hoover said representatives of the Viennese municipalities now at Berne, Switzerland, stated that food supplies for the ? 100000 people in the Austrian capital would not last more than ten days. The Swiss gov. ernment, the cablegram said, propps ed to forward at once a weeks sup ply for the city.
 AS to Rumania, the cablegram said the American and allied ministers there had telegraphed that they were convinced that the food sup plies would not last more than asl- other 30 days and that immediate steps for relief must be taken if the country is not to be submerged into Bolshevism.'
 MT Hoovers cablagram follows:
 "The first cargo of foodstuffs shipped through the cooperation Of
 
 ministration has arrived at Trieste and other cargoes should arrive at Cattaro and other points on the Adriatic sea in next three days. These supplies are intended for Serbia and the territory recently ann algamated 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 Saloniki, Greece, te- yond tho possibility of repair inside of four months.
 Colonel Mcintosh has already ar rived in Trieste, Austria. Colonel Atwood and Staff leave tonight for Ragusa, enroute for Belgrade, leav- ing representatives at Cattaro and other points.
 'Dr. Vernon Kellogg, Colonel Grove and Hugh Gibson leave Belrlt; 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 ltal- ian governments, under the chair manship of Dr. Alonzo Taylor, with the assistance Of Captain T. T. C. Gregory, of the United States army leaving tonight for Vienna in re- sponse to representations as to tha dangerous situation which has de- veloped in that city: The. rerresen- tatives of the Viennese municipali- :, ties now at Rerne state. that food supplies for the two million people | in the city of Vienna will not lasl for more than ten days. Owing tc the disorganization of railroads in Austria and the separating of Hun gary and Czecho-Slovakia. Vienni is particularly cut off from any sup | plies.
 "So far, the Bolshevik have beer kept under control in vienna,s bu advices indicate that unless food stufs can be furnished for the cit i it will be impossible to maintain prder. The Swiss government t proposing to forward at once abou a weeks supply for the city, bu the situation in Switzerland will no permit of their giving more than ] few days relief Il "The American and allied minis ters in Rumania have telegraphed t their respective governments tha after Investigating they ar convinced that the food supply Q RImania will not last for more tha 1 another thirty days and that imms diate steps for relief-m te take if the country is not to be submere ed by sBolshevism Methods of relic are under consideration, but pres ent extreme difficulties. The rail road of Rumania are largely broA en down. There is a great das of port destruction and there is n bunker coal in the. Black sea, ea cept what can be borrowed from tn allied navies. Further, Rurrania entirely without funds to pay fc food"