Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1919 — MILLIONS OF EUROPEANS FACING STARVATION. [ARTICLE]

MILLIONS OF EUROPEANS FACING STARVATION.

Starvation faces from fifteen to twenty millions of Europeans in central Europe outside of Germany unless some means “can be discovered for their assistance,” Berber Hoover, former food administrator, said Wednesday in a formal statement. Unless relief is quickly furnished, he predicted, a breakdown of stable fovernment in the countries afected and “creation of a cesspool like Russia.” To meet the situation Mr. Hoover proposed that the great surplus of wheat and flour held by the grain corporation be sold on credit to Finland, Poland, Austria and other ’nations of central Europe. The grain corporation, he said, could extend the credits out of the capital it alread ypossessed without a call for special appropriations by congress.