Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1920 — FOOD ROTTING AT DANZIG [ARTICLE]

FOOD ROTTING AT DANZIG

Packages Sent From U. 8. Held Up Since Last Summer. New York, Jan. 30.—The American Relief administration notified the state department that thousands of packages of food sent by persons in America to starving relatives and friends in south central and eastern Europe, have ben rotting In huge piles In Danzig since last summer. There Is no prospect, It added, of the goods reaching their destinations. Cable advices said that the loss of fobd and money would total “hundreds of thousands of dollars.” In reporting the matter to the state department, the relief administration pointed out that it had warned against shipment of food to Europe because of the lack of warehouse space and distributing facilities there.