The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-02

Menace-Balkan States in Serious
condition-An Americas Pork Sup
ply Wanted.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-Definite infor-
nation which throws much light on the
immensely of the task the United States
is called upon to accomplish in getting
is contained in eablegrams received here
from Food Administrator Hoover.
The large stocks of foodstuffs, and es-
pecally pork products and fats which
We're built up under the conservation
plans of the food administration, will be
needed badly, Mr.. Hoover believes, and,
in cooperation with the allied nations,
he has already taken direct steps to hurry
aid to many districts.
The first of the two cables brought the
information that 'every pound of pork
products we can export before next July,
Europe will need, and as soon as the
initial chaos of the sudden economic
change from wal to armistice can be over
come, there will be over-demands." Mr..
Hoover added that for another month it
would be impossible to determine just
what the volume of the task was.
That the conditions found by him de-
manded quick action in many directions
| to prevent actual starvation and counter
act the Boshevist tendencies. was asserted
| by Mr.. Hoover in another cable in which
he gave some detail of his work, as far as
it has progressed.
| atFTba fret IF fnndsf4tffs shinnal
through the cooperation of the war de
partment and food administration, Mr.
Hoover cabled, 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 sup
plies are intended for Serbia and the
territory recently amalgamated with Ser
bia in Bosnia and Montenegro, where
the distress is very acute. The only con
neetion is by railroad from the Adriati,
Sea. the Bulgarians having destroyed tn,
railroad from Saloniki, Greece beyond tn,
possibility of repair inside of four months
Il Colonel Mcintosh has already arrived
in Trieste, Austria Colonel Atwood an,
staff leave tonight for Ragusa en- rout,
! for Belgrade, leaving representatives a
: Cattaro and other points. DIR. Neroni
=
) leave Berne tonight by special train 70
1 Warsaw. by way of Vienna, to take charg
t iof relief measures which it is hoped t
!. develop for Poland.
!. "A commission representing American
French, British and Italian government,
under the Craftsmanship OF Dr. Alonz
4 Taylor. with the assistance of Captain ]
, T. G. Gregory of the United States arm,
| 10 lon xyip tpp1uh&
!. To representations as to the dangerou
: situation which has developed in that cit,
Y The representatives OF the Viennese m,
! inequalities now at Berne state that foo
0 supplies for the two million people in I'll
t city of Vienna will not last for more tina
- ten days. Owing to the disorganizatio
of railroads in Austria and the separatir
of Hungary and Czechoslovakia, Vienr
IS practically cnt off from any supple
so far the Bolsheviki have been kel
under control in Vienna. but advices i
dleate that unless foodstuffs can be IN
% nished for the city it will be impossib
to maintain order The Swiss COVER
L ment is proposing to forward at on
about weeks supply for the city, b.
the situation in Switzerland will not ne
NIT OF their giving more than few day
| relief
The American and allied ministers
Ronmania have telegraphed their respe
tive governments that, after investiga
ing, they are convinced that the 70,
Ilsupply of RCumania will not last for mo
than another thirty days, and that INN
- date steps for relief must be taken if t
- country is not to be submerged by B,
shevism. Methods of relief are under co
n sideration, but present extreme difieulti
tie The railroads of Roumania are large