Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-06
CONDITIONS IN
VIENNA HORRIBLE,
| SAYS ENCLISHMAN
People Without Fuel or Food;
Jugo-SIavS Put Forty Per
! Cent Export Duty on Food
In Relief Train.

lev SopsiRo JoaanhL sptcttL tsEsEp wREI
London. Jan Sir William Goode,
the British director of relief. declares
that Vienna is the worst of all the
famlne-stricken places that he visited
on recent tour through central Eu-
rope.
Although more than 100000 tons
Of foedstuffs, at a cost of nearly $780,
O00, 600, have been delivered in Euro
pean relief since the signing OF the
.armistice, by far the greatest share OF
which, he said, has been furnished by
the United States under the direction
of Herbert Hoover, conditions are sun
so deplorable as almost to 'beggar de-
scription," A distinguished BRUSH
army officer who had been in VIENNA
for some time, implored him before
he left the Austrian capital: "Fof
Gods sake 90 home and ten them
what il is likel" Sir william told. his
experiences to the American Luncheon
club here.
Il felt upon leaving Vienna he
said. "as if | had spent ten days in
the cell of a condemned murderer VINO
has given up all hope of a reprieve.
STAYED at the best hotel but saw no
milk and no eggs the whole time /
was there. In the bitter cold hall OF
the hotel, once the gayest rendezvous
in Europe. visitors huddled together IN
the gloom of one light, where there
used to be forty They were more IKE
shadows than representatives of the
rich. viennas world-famous opera
house is packed. every afternoon
WHY? Women and men go there IN
ordel. 10 keep themselves warm ana
because they have no work TO do.
Fire Is Cos ~.
am my office ] made several eX-
periments at working in ovefcoat anu
with blankets for the staff When the
thermometer inside was only one de-
gree above freezing point. t1nally
determined to get wood enough 10
light the one small fire for TWO days
n cost me $40 crowns, which, to the
vIsnnese is equivalent to about ESQ
or f40.
"Do YOU wonder that the well-to-do
neople in Vienna are burning thelr
furniture to light their stoves? Can
you imagine how the poor live or Try
Ia Iiye2 Ii is not unusual TO see the
traffic in one of the main streets
which leads to the cemetery held up
nv hearses. Nine-tenths carry the
bodies of children
in Vienna. in the palace of a for
mer archduke, l saw thousands Vi
nbiidren being fed with American re-
,ief food under the control of a young
naval officer whom / was proud toI
,acopnize as one of those Americans
Who did excellent work in the early
days of the commission for relief in
Belgium. Our own British relief mis-
sions, both in Austria and Hungary
and q number of unofficial British
s,nrl,ere ara doing everything possible
IN stem the tide Of distress" In Ser
bia alone Sir William declared, there
ave hSo 600 fatherless children, most
~ whom are suffering from hunger
ana exposure.
III seems to me that you cannot
,rifle With starvation and privation in
centdaI Europe such as prevails today
IN vienna Without running the risk of
a carnival of Bolshevism which would
nrobahIv not be confined to this con-
1inent 7 do not want to cry wolf and
I am rather inclined TO think that Boil
sheyisna has been used too much as
hnpv nut anyone with half an eye
must realize that if. as a result of ap-
narentlv legitimate grievances, forces
~ unrest are loosed in the heart of
17urone the whole world. the United
States as well as ourselves, will be
menaced "
Sir William declared that first and
foremost among the causes OF the
uresent situation in central Europe is
tbe DELAY in making peace"
sin Technically at War.
"It scarcely seems TO be realized in
,he 1rnitad Kingdom he continued,
.,iealated FROM the continent of Eu-
rome nv n narrow strip of water and
.. sin less in the limited States, ISOLATED
hv ',ba Atlantic ocean that Austria,
Iivnrarv 5pnIparia and Turkey are
stiIi tehbniralIy. AT war with the allies