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the higher prices. and BY their
very striking they eurtau pro-
dqetion and help send prices
higher Etill
The transport crisis. the coal crisis.
the clothing crisis, are All attribute
Die n part % the unrest OF labor, as
ven as 20 lack Of raw materials.
Italy EnterpFislns.
Italy. too. can feed herself. She
shows more enterprise than France
IN taxing her people. But the north,
Wlere the great Industrial cities lie
Is honeycombed with bolsheVisrsl.
Eroouction Of manufactured goods Is
less than half the normal figure. and
strike succeeds strike as prices soar.
italy produces no coal and no iron.
ana must import these vital commod-
tiles and pay for them in foreign
money This cannot be done with
ont long term credits, and these are
not easy 70 arrange
Thea there is the Adriatic problem,
y nleh complicatea the economic crisis.
me army Is kept almost fully mo-
1ilized for possible war with the
suEo-SlaTs, and in the army a vast
IS locked I'D doing nothing.
Great stores Of coal and petrol and
metals vitality needed in Industry are
kept as reserves for the war. which
lopoly really expects, but for which
tlr government feels It must be
ready The budget shows Italy's
financial position hopeless unless she
can build up her export trade, and
no signs Of her doing so can be dis
cerned-
Germany IA Hard Straits.
VITA the marx WcEth a cent, Ger
many cannot import raw materials J
without credits. She cannot get
credits from her late enemies as vet. I
. nllnogl raw natrials, she cannot I
make goods for export; without for !
eisn trade she cannot become self I
supporting or meet her ohliEatfons- I
These facts are generally known I
everywhere and need not be ampli- I
Ny information IS that the ten
dency TO crit towards a form OF !
communism, and a union with soviet /
Russia which i observed some weeks 1
ago, continued 70 spread. This Is not ]
the old diseredited Spartaeist move I
ment, but new, less violent and /
more widespread trend Of oainion.
IL g. based on the feeling that
as 3 capitalist state under Of the
CID order Of HoclcsF, Granny has
neea ruined BY the var, and her J.
enemies intend TO keep her in
lpndnEe for generations. there
fore there O. nothing, TO lose By
an attmDt ut communism.
a great part Of the German mid
ate class has suffered 30 that % Is !,
ready for thls experiment Russia T.
naa raw materials and food in plenty f.
Germany has technical skin and or p
EaniEiug ability together, some day K
they may rule the world ],
France does Wof ar--a II
when this tendency In Germany TO-
ward communism Is pointed out In
france as an argument why the Il
rrench should agree TO modification 4
1r the treaty, many Frenchmen nri- {
Eately express the hope that part Of K
Germany may 80 boIsheVist. They z
Say u IS 70 the interests Of France
Lnat Germany be split up; that the
peacs conference would not allow q
tnls, Dut that q communist move
lnent would accomplish the wished
LQF aim because Prussia and Bavaria
would not turn bolshevist, but would 7
survive as separate independent c
states
Austria's Claim for Mercy.
Austria has she strongest claim OF r
al the uoWu-a1d-out countries on p
me worlds mercy, for Il IS at once Z
IN the most pltiable condition Of any Z
land and has an honest, hard work 8
Ing government which seeks only 10 IA
revive the country and has no me- 2
tarlous plots ~ It's sleeve. In Wen II
ma IL appears 20 be only physical e
weakness caused By lack of food that 2
prevents Do4sleFlEm- The wicked {
revels OF the few profiteers who have b
unlimited money give q superficial Is
air Of prosperity to the visitor. but
glance below the surface SHOWS
misery unparalleled in q great capi- (
tai IN modern times. "a
The present stocks OF food VIII last {
another month"; the government Z
seeks now to get further SUPPLIES z
from the allies. II Is superflous to Z
discuss the economic condition OF this Z
uretched country. FOR nearly All the :
factories are closed Tor want OF ma Z