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THE NEWS AND OBSERVER. TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6, 1&20. VIENNA WORST OF STRICKEN PLACES English" Statesman FlnarrF ine Has wrought Most ' Havoc In That City liam Goods, the British Director of R lief, declare that Vienna ii the worst of all the famine-stricken place that k visited on a recent tour through Central Europe. - r Altnoogh mora Mian 2,400,000 tons of foodstuffs, at a coat of nearly $500, OOO.OUO, have hcen dclivcreJTin Euro . pean relief since the signing of tin ' armistice, by far tbe greatest ahare of which, be eaul, had been furnished uy r. the United Ntates under tiled ircetioa of Herbert Hoover, conditions are act i 1 1 o-deplorable as almoat to beggar de' atriuption." A distinguished Hritish army officer ivho had been in Vienna for soma time, implored him before he' left tbe Auatrian capital: "For (Jod'i lake go home and tell them, what it la like; Mir Willinm told ma exper ienee to the American Luncheon Club here. "I folt tipoa leaving Vienna," aaid he, "a If I had spent ten days .in tbe -tell of a condemned murderer who baa eiven un all hone . at a renrievo. stayed at' the" ocst bote! but I saw no milk and no egtrs the whole time I wai -there? In-t4atter-eo44 hall-of U 00 tel. once tbe gayest renaerroiis, in cur - ope, tbe visitors huddled together in tbe gloom of one light where thero used to be forty..' They wore more .like shadows than repreaentatlve of the rich. Vienna's world-famous Aiera . liouae la packed every afternoon. Whyf W-omoB and men go there in order to keep themselves warm and because they bare no work to do. Wood Bring High Price. "In my office I made several experi menti at working in overcoat and with blanket for the staff when the ther mometer inside waa only one degree above freezing point. Finally I deter mined to get wood enough to light the one small fire for two day. It eoit ma 870 crown, which, to tho Viennese, ia equivalent to about 30 pounds or O pound. "Do you wonder that the well-to-do people ia Vienna are burning their fur aiture to light their stoves f Can you im agine now the poor live or try to- live! " It ia not unusual to see the traffic In one of the main street which lead to the aemetery held, np by- hearse. . Nine-tenths carry the bodies of child ren. "In Vienna, ill the palace of a for mer archduke, I taw thousand of chil dren hpi ng - f tHl-KHU-TAmerkan . Kalief foods nnder-the eontrol -ot a young naval officer, w hom I was proud to -recognize as one of those American who did ex cellent work in the early day of tbe Commission for Belief in Bolgium. Our own British Belief Missions, both in -" Austria and in Hungary, aud a sum bar of unofficial British worker aro do ing everything "possible to stem thsAid of distress. In Serbia alone, wir o liam declared, there are 800,000 father less children, most of whom are suffer tug from hunger and exposure.. Starvation Berloa Thing. It seem to me that yen ran not trill with starvation. and privation in Centra Europpe such a prevail to day in Vienna without runulng th risk of a carnival of Bolshevism which would probsblv not ba eon flood to this cos tineat. I do not want to ery 'wolf and I an rather inclined to think lfint-Bol- sfaeviint-hnslicea- used too muelt -a-- bogy, but anyone with balf sn eye must rvalue that if, a a result of apparen tly legltitnste grievances forces of un rest are-loosed-la the heart of Europe, the whole world, the United States si well a nnraelves, Will be menaneed." Hir William declared that "first and foremost among the cause of tbe pres ent situation in Central turope is tbe delay in making peaee. It aeareely seems to b realized in the United Kingdom,' he-continued, "isolated from tbe continent of Europe by a narrow atrip of water and atill less in the United Btntes, isolated by the Atlantic Ocesn, that Austris, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey are atill technical ly at war with tbs Allies and, what is more imnortnnt. at war with most of their neighbors. As one approaches the frontier one finds every little wayside statiou pack ed with soldiers, . bayonets lixed and railway sidings congested wfth ammu nition wagons. War, snd all the waste ful affects of prepardness for war npon economic and industrial progress, sre visualized for miles as one travels througir'thcaB"- ronntrics;"------ "In many corners of Central Europe today the inhabitants do not ever know rteir own naUbhamyrnrTinlvrsJT peace is ratified, until boundary com missions are able to get' to work, and until plebiscites can determine the fu ture, of democracies, Central Europe will be a patchwork of ethnological dis location. An overprolonged armistice, following upon four yrara of war, has knocked away almost every fundamental prop; political, unsocial ana economic "fitntca on tbe Danube the main ave nue of traffic- fear to send bargeis but of their own territorial waters lest they should be appropriated bj their next- door neighbor, Just as on land the British Tommy is the only safeguard for a train of supplies, so on tha Pnnube one : of Admiral Jroubrirto I Jiritisu mino-Iayers. wJlE' a lifiH Bririsn middy in command,; is the only guarantee f safe conduct, , . (damps Oa Export: Duty. ' t-TW-cm-dayt tm-- tKe-j iigo-Biav frontier, trains of food supplies ar ranged by ihe Allied Tfcfief Missions and all paid for by the Austrian gov ernment wore on their way to mitigate starvation in Vienna. At the last mo ment tha Jugo-Hlav government clapped on an export duty of 40 per cent and refused to permit the trams to go for ward unless that tax waa paid in for eign exchange. ' I ventured ta take in ternational, law into my own hands and, thanks to tbe resourcefulness and in trepidity of a couple of young British A NASTY COLD EASfD AT ONCE "Pipe's Cold Compound" then breaks up 8 effld in a few hours Don't May stulTed-upl .Quit blowing and snuffling! A dose of "Papc s fold Compound" taken every two. bmr tiet'l three doses are taken usually breaks tip a scvptp xotd wn d rndmtt gTrp-rro:Tn-T-sr-;-- Tbe very first dose owns your dog ged up nostrils and the air passages of TtietifaT: stops nose running; lelievrs the headache, dullness, feverish ness, sneezing, soreness nud sFTne0 "Pa-pe a Cald Compound" is the quick est, surest relief known nud cords only a few cents at drug stores. It nets with out assistance, tastes nice, contains no quinine Insist upon I'upes! adv.' Army officers, those trains arrived In Vienna."-'--- '. ,;JV''i '" AautUcr iiiferkx-liiHg difficulty as be tween food .nd transport is the persist tent flocking of peasants with eggs, sacks of flou relive geese and ducks and alt kinds of agricultural 'produce' into the towns. In snow, rain, or any kind of neither, you can eenotonly the ToSde "But "IBs "roof of" every raiTway m tli ponged with this "-aiiacking rowd of food. suecuUvboia. rTbeir traf fic bus assumed such proportions as to make leggHuata.. raila'ay .Iravelilng aij most impossible. What it means in th problem -offoodrHj;rjpution will be apparent when I tell you that a train of 4U carriages full pf. tbesjL picturesque profiteering pedlars can only carry a much food aa could be put into four ordinary railway trucks. A woman ran get a man to do any thing she wants him to if she has tact enongh to induce him to talk about him self. Ah, cewboys.oa th streets.' I didn't expect to see tliem in thes days." 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