The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-05
SIR GOODE SAYS
 VIENNA IS HIT HARD BY FAMINE

GOOQ0, the Br1L1Sh olISCCOI OI fte41S1, declares that Vienna is the worst of all the famine-stricken places that he visited on a recent tour through Cen 1 tra1 Europe.
 Although more than 2,400,0o0 tons i ] of foodstuffs, at a cost of nearly | 1 $500,00O,OOo, have been delivered in l | European relief since the signing of l the armistice, by far the greatest share of which, he said, had beer l furnished by the United States under l the direction of Herbert Hoover, con 1 ditions are still so deplorable as al- 1 most to "beggar description" dis | tinguished British army officer who had been in Vienna for some time, l implored him before he left the Aus l trian capital: For Gods sake go home and tell them what it is hke" Sir William told his experiences to 1 the American Luncheon Club here.
 ''I felt upon leaving Vienna" said l he, ''as If I had spent ten days in l the cell of a condemned murderer l who has given up. all hope of a re- 1 prieve. I stayed at the best hotel but 1 I saw no milk &nd no eggs the whole | time I was there. In the bitter cold hall of the hotel, once the gayest | rendezvous ih Europe, the visitors | huddled together in the gloom of one $S
 They were more like shadows than
 representatives of the rich. Vienna's
 world-famous opera house Is packed
 every afternoon Why? Women and
 men go there in order to keep them
 selves warm and because they have
 no work to do.
 1 ''In my office I made several ex-
 periments at working in overcoat and
 ] with blankets for the staff when the
 1 +I,a ota inc
 gree above freezing point. Finally I
 l determined to get wood enough to
 light the one small fire for two days.
 It cost me 970 crowns, which to the Fl Viennese, is equivalent to about 30 or 40 pounds
 Fl DO you wonder that the we'll do people in Vienna are burning their s 1 furniture to light their stoves? Can 5 you imagine how the poor live or try to live? It is not unusual to see the S traffic in one of the main streets ] which leads to the cemetery held up E by hearses. Nine-tenths carry the bodies of children.
 "In Vienna, in the palace of for s mer archduke, I saw thousands of ! children fed with American Relief s food under the control of a young s naval officer, whom I was proud to 2 recognize as one of those Americans | WHO O1Q e8C011SnI WOrk III the carry S days of the Commission for Relief in Belgium. Our own British Relief B Missions, both in Austria and in Hun # gary, and a number of unofficial Brit ish workers are doing everythins g 4 possible to stem the tide of distress , 5 In Serbia alone, Sir William declared S there are 500,000 fatherless children z most of whom are suffering from a hunger and exposure. Ell t'It seems to me that you cannot E trifle with starvation and privatior q in Central Europe such as prevail: sS today in Vienna without running the # risk of a carnival of Bolshevisn A which would probably not be con a fined to this continent. I do not wan % to cry wolf and I am rather in z. cIined to think that Bo1shevism ha: sa been used too much as a bogy, bu | anyone with half eye must realize Rs that if, a result of apparent! sS legitimate grievances, forces of un & rest are 1oosed in the heart of Flu sN rope, the whole world, the United S States as well as ourselves, will b. s3 menaced."
 ga Sir William declared that "firs M and foremost among the causes of tn E present situation in Central Europ 3 is the delay in making peace.
 A ''It scarcely seems to be realized il H the United Kingdom" he continued M isolated from the continent of Flu @ rope by a narrow strip of water am M still less in the United States, isolate, E by the Atlantic Ocean, that Austria E Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey ar W still technically at war with the Al E lies, and what is more important, a E war with most of their neighbors. E "As one approaches the frontier E one finds every little wayside statio E packed with soldiers, bayonets ike s and railway sidings congested wit Ia ammunition wagons. War, and a E the wastefu1 effect of preparedness H for war upon economic and indus % trial progress, are visualized for mile ES as one travels through these coun E tries.
 8 ''In many corners of Central Eu IS rope today the inhabitants do nc a even know their own nationality. UT @ til universal peace is ratified, unt s boundary commissions are able to gt H to work, and until plebiscites ca R determine the future of democracie M Central Europe will be patchwor M of ethnological dislocation. An ovel
 A prolonged arnlistice, following upo gs four years of war, has knocked ava s3 almost every fundamental prop, pt @ 1itica1, financial and economic.
 E States on the Danube-the maj E avenue of traffic-fear to send barg, A out of their own territorial wate
 E9 lest they should be appropriated
 E their next door neighbor. Just as
 G land the British Tommy is the on
 E safeguard for a train of supplies
 I on the Danube one of Admiral ITO
 A bridges British mine-layers, with
 A middy in command. is the only qua
 E antee of safe conduct
 N ''The other day on the Jugo-sl'
 S frontier, trains of food supplies a
 E ranged by the Allied Missions and :
 E paid for by the Austrian governme
 E were on their way to mitigate sta
 A vation in Vienna. At the last nome
 E the Jugo-Slav government clapped
 z an export duty of 40 per cent. al
 @ refused to permit the trains to
 A forward unless that tax was paid
 I foreign exchange. I ventured to ta
 E9 international law into my own han
 E3 and, thanks to the resourcefulne
 A and intrepedity Of a couple of you
 M British army officers, those trains