Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-08-18
FOOD PR0BLEMI N
AUSTRIA SERIOUS

o. i,sar.riti Plea
VIENNA. Juls 20 Uy Mln --fmrt..
90 crops 90 early fuuf Hui seq i1ulrs
nnt PROMISE uf 1000 abundance ui uHltl' B.
later fi.Ids nun l,Id aud orchard with
ihr hls Am'uUu l'HI r.frlli -fill gtHt.
aI.r tsr tuc RATTAN - .-illy thread hive
Elsrn Austria "a r'pletr from tn" t.Ir'
De hard hips uf 'lst winter
Fats csc COS s,rfr, us ,,rr. however.
bgt ir thls gracious weather their nee !
nor su k,en'y fyIt Meat tou. is
s,an'y ani high beyond reach e a.,
u.isws The American flour credit Will
o. exhausted hs.oto the winter sets
fairly lu ana nu man in Austria Knows
from wh'fr ur hy what mcaus % vii
be- replaced.
Strikes an disturbances in the T's
chen coal folds "a. situation in Silvsia.
virtual suspension 81 the Hungarian
supply. little a. 10 was and. finally
Aus;ria's inability 60 enforce even a. =
mcagr" CuntriUtIHl supplies from b..
h"miA. have prevented the hoped for
accumulation of modest fuel reserve
during a., summer months runli.
utilities ~ Vienna are reported 90 hay"
but WEEKS r.s,rV. 20 r0al fnr power
and light and less than u month ~ gls
coal az a minimum consumption. Tn"
'afi Austrian Fix iron oven IN operation
has just drawn is fires fur lac, az
coke.
Into this situation has h.on injected
a curious business phase resulting from
the increased value nf th' crow uu Ton
eign chance. In the late winter and
early spring the crown dropped as luW
~ $50 90 the dollar on private cxchgng"
Encouraged hy this q small export
trad was nnurshed Austrian factor
les famous for certain forms ~ finish
90 articles began o. resume operations
an limited scale foreign buyers see.
INK a goud business chance IN the luw
crown value against standard monies
Manufacturers were able 20 get ad.
Vanccs - credit o. secure CSul and need
I'd raw materials II was good specu.
lati0n for foreign values Then IN.
Minister 81 Finance. DR.. Reisch. drop
ped a hint one day during q debate h.
the Assembly that Il woulud b. wise T.
Austrian rcisil sellers were Co rails.
their crown Prices 90 the equivalent -
foreign values They did n \ suit ~
clothes Tint cust from a.000 o. 1000
crows russ In nrlco 90 from I 2 Goa tn
$4,000 crowns Everything else went NJ
In proportion.
Then the government. acting on thu
same principle II reported 90 hav,
gone On the Zurich exchange. which
controls crown quotations with larg,
amounts ~ foreign money and fUrra'
the crown m Their Efforts were assis.
81 unexpectedly by an influx into Ava.
iria n foreign money spectators. M.
preciaii'r - The o-tnies - No ciNet
rN''ntries ~ Central snd Er~' m Eu.
ron" made this their last field Tor since.
riaiion. pnrHdS. dollars snd france
h'~arie plentiful with snall den,an =
ri the crown roe" IN whine u~iil tn
osfis'ial prirs WV i30 ~ the dollar and
80 IL private deals Rot1il urir.s cor
tinued 10 ~ up ~ that with the RE.
IN ihe cfown cutting fnrsig1 values ~,
hsif. the plan literally "cut its own
throat"
Foreign huvrrs quit Retail trade
s;sgnatei Matte Ausirians dii not
know whether the laugh Or cry az =
straw hot ~ window bearing the price
mark Il 2Oo0 crowns. But they wer.
not snid
The net stop ~ the reaction hit Ia.
hasic Industries. The few factories run
ring have begun - curtail OF cloaf
f1wn rr''ess are canc~lled and new
"pn'fa-'s f.i o. roFi- The Ministry ~
Ser.aiiriu ~ h.-eaih.si with f.du-.'.
fruf" fsr"f1.f 200 - 90 .. permitted .,
f's'har'" emp ta n being r-pOrt.y'
fh7' re hi-h n- twenty dly have beer
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