Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-25
|EUROPE must POOL FOOD
GENERAL BLISS DECLARES
SITUATION NEEDS A HOOVER
Production Near Normal Hut HoardinE
and Pour Distribution In Caus-
ing Starvation.
iny Associated press

WASHINGTON. Dec. 24.-Europe's
most urgent need today Is the pooling
CT Its food supply and the establish
inent OF proper distribution facilities
uAGcr dlrector-sencral in the opin-
ION OF General Tasker II. Bliss, :; menu
Der OF the American peace delegation
VINO reached Washington today from
Paris.
Such an arrangement, General Bliss
Said would remove discomfort.
strengthen morale and aid over the
;oil rit;. period the new governments
The war; 'e@ui' vi
Germany should be included in the
3Sononiic coalition. General Bliss said
with Germany excluded he IecIarrJ
there would he an element OF dis"on-
tent which would. inevitably react On
Inc other countries.
Cannot Include Russia.
General Bliss saw no possibility Of
Pan. but Ito said .'if tho present So So.
Womd nay GoyeT fa,r Of that country
world Tor thirty days during that time
ne general distribution OF necessities
G Go a., DC ;"r worked TO include Russia"
cnahged.
TIL, There is no reason for famine
i'iisH SAID, despite the destruction and
loss of production during the war. lie
E urnnH a. food H production this year in
cent or normal. Interruption OF dis
:r,:Dution and boarding of excess sup
niiSs explains, the. present economic
-, Finch Lacks Some E.sentiaIs
,;,n Inc geneI"i iikencd the various ma
holding all the Joint stock" of food
ana transportation utilities formerly
0 o. . IN common; The result, lie said.
a. another wheat in excess. but each
Is IackinS in one or more essentials.
Ill, INC morale Of tho older govern
eeption. General Bliss said. but tho
more recently established nations are
eeono ,af i fG9m stab}e as result OF
Italy should lend their Whole s,ippor ru
70 me coalition idea if only for the
he declared
General Bliss suggested that such
d man as Herbert Hoover should be
named dircctorgcneral OF eupplics for
Europe, and that there should be an
Iomted with this official another to be
. NJ r.senerai OF transportation Into
you'd be placed not only ali stores
o. cereals nnd grains, but coal, pe,ro-
ieI.l.. metals and railroad equipment
n0od tas Gates OF Starving Cities
There - food in plenty right in ~
the gates OF Budapest and Viennn. and
Elss declared 80
:. me present ,sovernmcnt OF Germany,
w wa" a.. as II Is" represents the only
ne pc OK INC world for the early re-
opinion of the peace coInmIsstoncr
.. IT that government falls" h" saia
,r rMsnc can aries only one OF two cX-
ti+'hcS--ciiher an absolutely Reaction
airy government or what woiIld a,notIn,
10 rule by Soviet"
,nd aie mad seen no official reports wh!c,,
!"mjnaiio,n revival Of the juni;cr
.n,ore out tho Tears expressed abroad
mat Germany would again become n
!cnacc 10 the world peace
europe as whole Is 80 tired or
"ar he said, tina, incidents whlch
Viii bs on nigh, lead to hoatilties
so near 10 Germany o that f cand;, , is
when to us might appear as trivial
I'm 90 mer takes on the aspec, Of n threat
Sc. No Decline In MiIitnri.m.
IN the other hand. General Eliss
''u. tnere has as yet been no decline
iarg t.'T hns.i,, IN Europe since The war.
Tons or their governments and ~.
te. AZ. o. EolshcyIsm. 49," ''''
Il b elieSo ihat te !; nl Biss added
50 distribute the supplies pi IN Tmss 10
a. 70 pIt cl9thes on the backs OF the
ttE cipr 10 M their bellies and warm
pear in "a month" iu u'snp
led TeMx lsyg the developments which
s sln .inaHy TO the organization of the
II-pre!ne war council with General
sx ge is C zen E, ,issmo. General Bliss
iad been taken in 1914 the war wo ,,T,
, nave ,, been materially shortened, that
ha,.o husSian revolution would never
nave nave occurred. the DardaneIlas exneTi.
non non would not have been undertaken
- inc principal military disastcr.
TO the allies averted VI
roeh Once offered to Resign.
clr'ai Bliss disclosed that Because
irSpcr authority was nj frs, ,"i,h
,Meld from Marshal Foch. the I.t ,tn-
3, @' 1s St.lci Ia council at Ecauvais April
I,osi.;nr' ana oTGred to resign. hi:
::::nothcr element Of discord: he coi,ig
o.,s uruinatc' the efforts OF the ynri-
u prs Eromp leaders under the althori,,.
i t,nei.ous!y given him. but no orders
Tho ' SsIer were held to he binding on
rspainE the resignation. tic c ~ tJI
''u 10 give Foch full authority.