Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-11
ENNA WORST OF
 . FAMINE-RIDDEN ! CITIES OF EUROPE
stish Relief Finds COndi- ions in Famous Old Cap- s ital Bad

bi.@4 Dv declares that Vienna is the Sweet of all the famne-strickeu theires that he visited on a recent ssu thru Central Europe.
 instho more than , 100 900 tons of abbnn.tstuffs, at a cost of nearly $500, mon900, have been delivered n Flu theA relief since the signing of IT armistice. by far the greatest erts9e of which. he said, mad been nv dished by the United States un- auditthe direction of Herbert Hoover,
 iitions are still so deplorable '. almost to "beggar description" Sh, Distinguished British army officer pusii had been in Vienna for some .Jar implored him before he left stopr go home and tell them what ns lfke!"
 felt upon leaving Vienna" he ha, "as if l had spent 10 days in
 cell of condemned murderer g. has given up all hope of a I stayed at the best ho- natio but I saw no milk and no eggs holid whole time I was there. In the ca.er cold hall of the hotel, Unce ,to,ea gayest rendezvous in Europe, the s. sis, htors huddled together in the last Sm of one light where there used sino be 40. They were more like shad- She than representa- atives of the Iider, Vienna's world famous opera v arse is packed every afternoon. on E Women and men go there in
 CT to keep themselves warm and @ause they have no work to do se~an my office l made several ex- iments at working in overcoat with blankets for the staff when thermometer inside was onl1
 degree above freezing point.
 ally l determined to get wood
 ugh to light the one small fire
 two days. It cost me 970
 vns, which, to the Viennese. is
 tivalent to about 30 or 40 pounds
 sterling.
 Do you wonder that the wel-to-
 people in Vienna are burning
 Fr furniture to light their stoves?
 you imagine how the poor live
 try to live? It is not unusual to g the traffic in one of the main
 eets which leads to the cemetery .-od up by hearses. Nine-tenths ny the bodies of children. ,,, In Vienna, in the palace of a for u'sf archduke, l saw thousands of tdren being fed with American re-
 food under the control of a young
 tal officer, whom I was proud to
 ogni2e as one of those Americans /o did excellent work in the early Is of the commission for relief li
 1gium. Oar own British relief
 ssions, both n Austria and in tngary, and number of unofficial
 ftish workers are doing everything Visible to stem the tide of dis
 ss." s Ia Serbia alone Sir William
 clared. there are 800, 000 father
 $ children, most Of whom are
 ffering from hunger and expos .e.
 Tt seems to me that you cannot afle with starvation and privation ' Central Europe such as prevails Hay in Vienna without running the Vk of a carnival of bolshevism, tich would probably not be confn-
 to this continent. I do not want
 cry wolf and I am rather inclin-
 to think that bolshevism has en used too much as a begy. but yone with half an eye must real ~ that if, as a result of apparently ' sitimate grievances. forces of un- Nst are loosed in the heart of Eu- -6e, the whole world, the United Iates as well as ourselves, will be enaced "
 Sir William declared that "first ,.,,d foremost among the causes of 'H'e present situation in Central Flu ape is the delay in making peace. uIfTt scarcely seems to be realized
 the United Kingdom" he con aued "isolated from the continent Europe by narrow strip of water Id still less in the United States plated by the Atlantic ocean, that Nsltria, Hungary. Bulgaria and Tur- Y are still technically at war with e allies and. what is more impor- mt. at war with most of their 'iohbors.
 "As one approaches the frontiers ie finds every little wayside sta on packed with soldiers, bayonets .-xed, and railway sidings congested With ammunition wagons. War, and | the wasteful effect of prepared sss for war upon economic and in- astrial progress. are visualized for Hes as one travels thru these coun- ies.
 -'ln many corners of Central Eu- fpe today the inhabitants do not zen know their own nationality. Un- ] universal peace js ratified, until oundarv commissions are able to st the work. and until plcbiscites can etermine the future of democracios llllentral Europe will be q patchwork -f ethnological dislocs ton An over tolonged armistice. following upon 5ur years Of war. aas Knocked way almost every fundamental rep; political, financial and econo- <ic.
 AaStates on the Danube-the mann Aenue of traffie-fear 10 send Kkrges out of their own territorial IElia4ers lest they should be approp- ! iated by their neNt-door ncighhor Akaast as on land the British Tommy Mi the only safeguard for train Of VIpplies. SO on tho Danube one of x.dmiral Troubridgc's British mine. Alyers, with a little British muddy in is the only guarantee of Aafe conduct.
 ui "The other day on the Jugo Slay '. yontier. trains of food supplics ar ,a anged by the allied relief missions Fl md all paid fer hy the Austrian = feyernment were on their way To 7 liitigate starvation in Vienna At lae last moment the Jugo. Siav gov. rnment elspped on au export duty 70 per cent and le Used Co ncr
 ss the iraiuf Go go farxard uuie