The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-10
AUSTRIA ISSUES A P|TEOUS PLEA FOR
 SUCCOR FROM Us.
America Only Has Power to Save Seven Million People From Starvation, Says
 EichOff
sv Associated Press

Washington, January 5-An appear ] to the American people to extend aid to 1000. 900 Austrians threatened with anarchy and death by starvation dur ..g the winter has been forwarded to Washington by Baron Eichoff, who Is head of the Austrian peace delegation.
 .'The representatives of the allied and associated powers in Paris are fully aware of the terrible distress by which Austria is actually afflicted, says Baron Eichoffs appeal. Tt re- suited from the plain figures which have been laid before the reparations committee with ghast1y evidence. that on the end of the present month the Austrian people literally will perish py cold and starvation. This is fact which nobody calls into question.
 Tt has been established by the de- Alterations of the separations conlnii'- tee and of the supreme council that Austria can only be saved by gran,ins her the necessary credits anu the hope that the powers would do so holds up as yet to a certain extent the morale of the suffering people Al tba nresent moment this situation mas come to a specially critical phase, the European powers having declared Una. they cannot grant those credits ana ,.,,at American CO operation ofiers the only chance for saving Austria
 SOLEMN PLEA FOR HELP
 .It is therefore. the sacred duty or every representative of the Austrian people, and, I might say. or everSpuus ,s,y knowing the utmost distress or tnis people. to address a most urgent ap- neal 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 United States, which at all times has been the cham pion of liberty and of justice, that they alone can save our people ana that by refusing their aid they would 1 abandon 1000. 00o of human creatures to certain death from cold and starva- stion. We beg to inform the United | States of our sufferings and to trans init the cry of distress of starving Ipeople to the noble-minded American nation to which Austria confidently {, has recourse in this supreme nom ent. We beg to point out to the United l States the dangers of anarchy. the horrors of misery and famine and the l outbreaks of cruelty to which self l preservation will lead the stronger l ones against the weak. We beg to present to every American citizen the physical decay of the hitherto robust and efficient Austrian highlanders. We | beg to appeal especially to American wives and mothers and to point out ] to them the dangers and sufferings 1 which imminent maternity imposes on ] Austrian women unable to secure thei- l own living. They look forward to the i arrival of poor creature unfit to live 1 whose existence cannot be but pain full burden to the new born as well as to his family.
 UNPARALLELED CATASTROPHE
 "The perishing under the eyes of the whole world of 100000 of human
 beings who in the face of inevitable lstarvation would fight each other ir utmost despair were catastrophe
 unparalleled in history and an ever Tasting stain on the civilization of the | twentieth century.
 'Confidingly the Austrian people ap
 peals to the feeling of justice and oi
 humanity of the American nation
 notwithstanding economic and politica
 difficulties which might be offered tt
 the relief action. The magnanimoul American nation will not be deaf t,
 the voice of commiseration.
 ''It is impossible that a people O 7,000,000 must die when compara lively slight effort of the United State