The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-01-01
AMERICAN FOOD
REACHES SERB|ANS
FIRST RELIEF SHIP SENT BY
HOOVER ARRIVES AT FINAL
DESTINATION

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-Arrival
ing food supplies for the Serbians and
the sending of special mission to
Warsaw to organize food relief in Po-
land and another to Vienna to investi-
gate food conditions there, were an
nounced in cablegram received at
the food administration today from
Herbert C. Hoover at Paris. A COM
mission also has left for Belgrade to
take charge of the situation there.
Conditions in Vienna and also in
Rumania were said to be desperate.
Mr.. Hoover said representatives of
the Viennese municipalities now at
IBerne, Switzerland, stated that food
supplies for the 100000 people in
the Austrian capital would not last
more than ten days.
AS to Rumania, the cablegram said.
the American and allied ministers
there had telegraphed that they were
convinced that the food supplies
would not last more than another
thirty days.
Mr.. Hoover's telegram follows:
''The first cargo of foonstuffs
shipped through the cooperation of
the war department and food admin
istration has arrived at Trieste and
other cargoes should arrive at Cat
taro and other points on the Adriatic
sea in the next three days. These
supplies are intended for Serbia and
the territory recently amalgamated
with Serbia in Bosnia and Montene-
gro, 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, beyond the possi-
bility of repair inside of four months.
"Colonel Mcintosh has already ar
rived in Trieste, Austria. Colonel At
wood and staff leave tonight for Ra
gusa enroute for Belgrade, leaving
representatives at Cattaro and other
points.
"Dr. Vernon Kellogg, Col. 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.
ga commission representing the
American, French, British and Italian
governments under the Craftsmanship
of DR.. Alonzo Taylor, with the as
sistance of Capt. 7. T. C. Gregory of
the United States army, is leaving to-
night for Vienna in response to rep.
resentations as to the dangerous sit
uation which has developed in that
city. The representatives of the vi
ennese municipalities now at Berne
state that food supplies for the
100000 people in the city of Vienna
will not last for more than ten days.
Owing to the disorganization Of the
railroads in Austria and the separat-
ing of Hungary and Czecho-Slovakia,
Vienna is practically cut off from any
supplies.
$50 far the bolsheviki 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 weel's supply
for the city, but the situation in Swift
zerland will not permit of their Civ
ing more. than a few days relief.
"The American and allied ministers
in Rumania have telegraphed to their
respective governments that, after
they are convinced that
the food supply Of Rumania will not
last for more than another thirty days
and that immediate steps for reliSS
must be taken if the country is not to
be submerged by bolshevism. Meth
DDS of relief are under consideration,
by the present extreme diff
ficulties. The railroads of Rumania
are largely broken down. There is a
great deal of port destruction and
there is n bunker coal in the Black !
sea except what can be borrowed
from the allied navies. Further, Ru-
mania is entirely without funds to
pay for food