Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-28
AUSTR|A'S reward
IS BUT DESOLAT|ON
Nation Which Attempted the
Slaughter of Little Neighbor
Amply Punished.
ITS CONDITION Is DESPERATE
Country Without Money. Raw
Material, Coal or Strong Friends
in Hopeless Plight.
NJ SIR RoDERICK JONES.

LONDON. March 2T.-I have JUS
zone through Central Europe on .
nothing of what i heard. left an in:
desiblc impression on my mind. Bu
s else, *a It ai ID not 'n inciaae a a eare 9Sih ana
scientific Investigation into economic
conditions.
austria is broken. ragged. sinking
man Without hope-the most dcsper,
any n e sGnaa.iGp 1, t9T fali 1h iH,.. BENG o.
Like Beautiful Lost woman.n
.ylenna. as compared with the W.
fslien upon evil days and abandoned
By her lovers. Tie palaces and man
'.!onB are dark and deserted. the streets
Rpmen who pass you by sad OF coun-
tenance, undcr-nourished and ill-clad,
except the prchteer and a few others
Is Kaertner-Strasse. and the other
sse1t ,horouEhfarcs, you see leaning
creatures minus arms. legs and eyes.
aA,yerinG in hheir ragged uniforms.
keeping warm in wraps ana u!stcrs!
Health MT Low
Recently received n long message
ma He said IL was almost imposs!-
BILE to ~eaaEgerate the appalling. Of
ferts OF tho war upon the health OF the
~ TIC q NhCS.
the death rate rises fast and tho birth
raie is. steadily decreasing. Women
ere surer!hg from softeninE of the
about a dozen cases in a year. now
there arc more than five hundred in
agmonth. pysentery and typhus are
raw materials. Consequently Indus
ne so Pssr.'e are idie. %f For daya I soa
9ether no trains run.
Moreover. the majority Of the people
ooh and raw material. without more
food they would be incapable of work
ing properly; Therefore food; raw
inx II Austria is. to rise on, or her
present iamentahle state.
SIR william Goodies commission and
others. understand. have already
created the machinery requisite for
providing, these clements. When J
VA in Vienna they were only waiting
can and British governments.
The people reminded one OF nothing
90 nnse as ana { 5 ssos ss. .s ssssf Of s~ pe4ish..
help which he Ihinks h sees APP.
he last shorasn3 It Should all. =
es Amply Punished.
whatever r~etribution Austria may
isatins me aase i nssu nef yha Z. has Ia pr oSeP
taHen her. and do NOT think any
hody today can visit Austria and
contemplate her agony without doing
50 from the point of view of common
humanity and not from the point OF
The exchange Is almost as serious
asfactor az coal. raw materials and
food. OF course. y Is entirely bound
mp with them. With crowns at more
than $50 to the dollar. 1t is almost i'm
possible for Austria TO do business
oven with her next-door %neighbor. TO
say nothing Of getting in from abroad
the things which she requires.
Indced the exchange problem all
expert attention, and In deciding re-
Gently to an international CON
ference on this subject the council OF
the eaxue Of nations took a wise step.
C1ccho-Slovaks Have Hope.
when you pass from Austria into
C2echo-Slovakia you enter a new do
main, divided though It is from the old
oniy by an imaginary line. In some
respects. for food and raw materials.
not much Better off than tho Austrt-
are men having hope-high hope, high
heart. high ambition, feeling them.
selves young nation-wiih the world
Bear In mind that, while the Avs
tr.a OF today, fallen from her high
estate. has q population of only $500
600. Czecho-Slovakia has 100000 or
sionai hero. and il the .idealism and
MAsaryk and Benes prevail. We may
possibly see a new Europe indeed.
Hut the magnitude OF their task
must not be underated.