The Washington herald., 1919-01-01
FOOD SUPPLY
IN BALKANS
NEARING END
Chairman Hoover Reports
Arrival Of Relief Ships
for Serbia.
VIENNA FACES DANGER
Committees Investigating
Food Situation in Poland
and Rumania.

CablegramS from Herbert Hoover
in Paris received by the Food Ad-
ministration here give a picture Of
the huge problem he is facing in
helping to feed Europe.
Chaotic conditions in the Balkans
where distress is very acute are re-
ported by the American Food Ad-
iministratOr. and he says there Is
only a ten days food supply visible
for the 1000. 900 people of Vienna.
THE first cargo or foodstuffs
shipped through the cooperation of
the Wor Department and Food Ad-
ministration has arrived at Trieste" "
Mr. Hoover cables, "and other car
goes should arrive at Cattaro and
other points on the Adriatic Sea in
the next three days.
Supplies Rench Serbia.
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 Salonika. Greece. be-
yond the possibility of repair inside
| of four months.
Col Mcintosh has already ar
rived in Trieste, Austria. Col At
wood and staff leave tonight for Ra-
gusa en- route for Belgrade. leav-
| ing representatives at Cattaro and
| other points. DR.. Vernon Kellogg,
| Col. Grove and Hugh Gibson left
Berne last night by special train for
Warsaw. by way of Vienna, to take
| charge of relief measures which IL
is hoped to develop for Poland.
InyestIgatIng Vienna.
"A commission representing the
American, French, British and Ital-
! ian governments. under the chair
manship of DR.. Alonzo Taylor. with
the assistance of Capt. T. T. c.
Gregory, L. s. A, left last night for
Vienna in response to representa-
tions as to tho dangerous situation
which has developed in that city.
THE representatives of. the Vienuexe
tci3tci1aHtiC5 Now at BUf1Ie sLate tnat
food supplies for the 100000 people
in the city or Vienna will not last
more than ten Gays.
Owing TO the disorganization of
railroads in Austria and the separat-
ing of Hungary and Czecho- Slovakia,
Vienna is practically cut off from any
supplies.
Rumania in Need.
80 far the BoIsheviki have been
kept under control in Vienna, but ad-
vices indicate that unless foodstuffs
can be furnished for the city It will
be impossible to maintain order The
Swiss government is proposing to for
ward at once about a weeks supply,
but the situation in Switzerland will
not permit of their giving more than
few days relief.
The American and allied ministers
in Rumania have telegraphed to
their respective governments that,
after investigating, they are con-
yinced that the food supply of Ru-
mania will not last for more than
another thirty days and that i'm
mediate steps for relief must be ta-
ken If the country is not to be SUBJ
merged by Bolshevism.
Methods of relief are under con-
sideration but present extreme diff
culties. The railroads of Rumania are
largely broken down. There is a
great deal of port destruction and
there is no bunker coal in the Black
Sea except what can be borrowed
from allied navics. Further, Rumania
is entirely without funds to paw for
food"