Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-10
AMERICAN AID IS ASKED FOR SEVEN MILLIONS IN AUSTRIA Population is Threatened With Anarchy and
 Starvation MORALE RESTS ON
 HOPES OF RELIEF Head of Peace Delegates of Erst- while Foe Makes Pathetic
 Appeal to American
 Generosity

Washington, Jan. 9.-An appeal to the American people to extend aid to seven million Austrians threaten ed with anarchy and death by star vation during the winter, has been forwarded to Washington by Baron Richoff, who is head of the Aus trian peace delegation.
 "The representatives of the lied and associated powers in Paris are fully aware of the terrible distress by which Austria is actually afflict- ed." says Baron Eichoff's appeal. Tt is reflected from the plain figures which have been laid before the re- parations committee with ghastlv eVl- dence that on the end of the pres ent month, the Austrian people liter ally will perish by cold and starva- tion. This is a fact which nobody calls into question.
 "It has been established by the deliberations of the separations committee and of the supreme coun- cil that Austria can only be saved by granting her the necessary cred it's and solely the hope that the pow CTS would do so, holds up as vet to certain extent the morale of the suffering people. At the present moment, this situation -.as come to specially critical phase. the Euro pean powers having declared that they cannot grant those credits and that American cooperation offers the only chance for saving Austria It is therefore, the sacred duty of every representative of the Austrian people, and, might say, of every body knowing the utmost distress of this people. to address a most uro- ent appeal for help to the whole population of the United States of America.
 "We ought to point out to every man and to every woman in the Uni ted States which at all times has been the champion for liberty and for justice that they alone can save our people and that by refusing their aid they would abandon seven mil lion human creatures to certain death from cold and starvation.
 Nation Crumbling.
 "We beg to inform the United States of our sufferings and tn transmit the cry of distress of 9 starving people to the noble minded American nation to which Austria confidently has recourse in this su- preme moment We beg to point out to the United States the dangers ct anarchy. the horrors of misery and famine that the outbreaks of cruelty to which self-preservation will lead the stronger ones against the weak We beg to present to every Amer'- can citizen, the physical decay o, the hitherto robust and efficient Austrian highlanders. We beg to ap- peal especially to the American wives and mothers and to point out to them the dangers and sufferings which imminent maternity imposes on Austrian women unable to secure their own living. They look forward to the arrival of poor creature un- fit to live whose existence cannot De put a painful burden to the new born, as we'll as to his family.
 "The perishing under the eyes o1 the whole world Of seven millions o1 l human beings who in the face of m evitable starvation would fight eacf other in utmost despair. would b' catastrophe unparalled in history and an everlasting stain on the CIVIL ization of the twentieth century.
 "Confidently, the Austrians appea to the feelings of justice and O huranity of the American nation notwithstanding economic and poll tical difficulties which might be op posed to the relief action. Th' magnanimous American nation vii not be deaf to the voice of commiser ation. :, 'It is impossible that people o seven millions must die when a com paratively slight effort of the Uni | ted States could save them."