South Bend News-Times, Volume 35, Number 7, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 7 January 1918 — Page 2

MONDAY ITVrXlNO. JAXFAItY 7. I91S

THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES

BEHIND THE SCENES

With Rulers and Leaders of Wartime Europe By the Princess Raclziwill

'T'.vr: - At the time of the Freyfus ;igitalion I was living in Pans, an.l iwd constantly to m-t M. Georges Cle.T.cnttau at the ho :.-e of the Zola.-. or at f toat .. ,dauame .M e j r U, Dorian, the great lady, who V. a h muse of - V V v- a h muse. ,," "y. T' y the third r - puMi' M. CICnicr.n a u w a s then in oppo ition and on'1 of the 1 ad ': as o f the party that lamored for a reision of the Ircyfu affair. It w a s quite wonderful to tc i tr h h im ' r . t IT1nr- Hadluill. , "i"-. to observe the i-hrewdness eornbuie.J im urnifKK, which he used to lir.p!ay at a period when almost : ery ore, w ith the exception of ; hlm.self, hid lo-t his or her Control. lie, perhaps alone France at that moment, v. an man uho knew what it wan self in the ho wished, and thi in n point which must he rememoered with the s;ile exception of Kmile Zola, lie wan the only one in the country who had entered the ranks of Dreyfus' defender from purelv disinterested motive.--, and 1-eeanse he lir.mly believed that the honor of his country was at stake that it would I.e i stain upon that honor were an innocent man condemned to spend the rest of hi.i life in banishment, under me oruoquy r an undeserved harne. (.'lemtneeau has always ben an honest fearless man. Ho hat Leen accused of upsetting governments and cahjnets, hut one has entirely forgotten with what readiness on many oct asions he has complete effaced himself before others. imrIv because of hi -nvi-

uon that others would at th- pai-ivertr' tnfm Into a constant and unticular moment, be hetter able thanjfai,in fo,itain of joy and cladness. himself to I. enefit that France which "N(,ff there are only two things he has always cherished .so tender- ,that are ,n revelation to His .second lv. eomin.tr that you and I are responmots" when they have forgotten his!ni,e fr service and violence; services to his country. Ch inenceau anJ to l,e true to oUr orders we can not help tin.lin' ahajs tie oiie.,n,,st keer thi outlook of faith, word which characteizes a person) '"The ilihlo everywhere induces or a situation and e ntirely forget-1 tn tinie of Christ's second coming tin- mercy in applying it. This fac-' to its lowest terms, holding other ulty has Momrht liim many enemies thini;s paramount; Christ does the for whom he does not care and ame thing by disappointing one many admirers about whom he .generation after another. If the troubles himeif still less. J time element were the important Georges Clemenceau Is perhaps ! thing we might as well Rive it up the greatest Frenchman of Iiis tinie. I as so many practically do, aarf fay Hla mUfortune, if it can be 50 call- j there is no such thing, yet He says ed, consists in being too witty. Pen- ' unto all 'Watch!' There must then pie here remembered his "bons be a more fruitful sense of the There is no vanity in thi remark- j w ord, aide man. Like all geniuses, where! "In the midst of and along the politics comes into riuestion, he is 'line of your works look for Christ's absolutely indilTerent to the judg-: coming. It is a dreary business

rnent of the crowd, for the crowd does not exist where he is concernd. He knows ery well Iiis own

worth, and he acepts it quietly, j looking for Christ to return. Skeptiwithout the intrusion of vanity to cism comes that way. The time ppoil his conviction. In spite tf his drags as it always drags for one age, he remains the -am. ; ri'ht, ! who is doing nothing but fitting active little man that he was HO .tili looking. Oh, you Kay I have years ago. He does not (are for Peen a Christian for 20, 40 or 50 otüce. and 1 think that if he could years and all this time I have been read what I am writing now. he looking but nothing has happened, would nay that I had Judged him .Nothing will happen, my brother, Meli in saving that to him it is a except that some day death will au?e of regret rather than elation strike Pis hands across your eyethat he must a-ain abandon this at-1 D.uis and stop your looking. They tUude of opposition in which he has who et visions of the coming of been able to render su h ureat ser- Christ are thev who are serving Him -.ices to his country. Clemenceau in .Ktive ways here." Is not ambitious. He is purely and

dimply a patriot and would be "very much offended if one mistook him for au-rht else. I hali always remember him on the day when the mortal remains of "his friend ZIa w re transferred from the cemetery of Montmartre to the Falithrom A inadm.m belonging to the cleii.al party hied a oistol shot at ('apt. Dreyfus Just as the ceremony was cornim: to ; n end. A kind of panic ensued, during which Clomenceau ahme remained f:rm !i nil niniiu i,l I . i j n.lin' . , i . ii i , i It' AIi II 'lll .!.. II I'll V' I III- - J herve the slightly ironical smile that , hoered n Iiis hp-. one of his triends lear.ed oer his ear and whispered: ' "I wonder whether this sho; was intended for ou, monsb'iir le iresl-j dent du consril, (r for Dreyfus?" j The old hon, -:ov. hroad' replied; smiling quite , 'S i c'etait ::n :e contra m i. co.. Tie ;n a jas fait ir.al me. ("If it did nt was directeil a-:.iinst linrt me.") it What mu .Id d repeated is that Ci'-mt :a a i i- j one man in Frame who lenows and understands ter of the peop'.e of rtate. He lias l:ed ;md studied it. to. th--r habitant, from the v; a i:I.a;s tl. thi-i i'u -:h!v lie . b.aract)c Cnited ' iri Ava erica j w :: h its in- j j " ; Ti : of a n ! ' p: .". !; e- . intelligent man deo .. or perconci ie l r. o t : " :i 1 er his or.ee saying to thought ho one's educ.it; t lete unless one had I ! e rr. - me that lie n w a tomcrTi to the Vnitrd State., and h: i-elf ao;'.:.itnt.'.I v ith the P ,e v.ecf the l "I'l tiles e. A Irierni o mine writing to mo the other day from IV. ris mentioned C'.e . -er.ceau in his Utter, and re:r..irk(V "He is i he one solitarv man in Trance who rt al17.es entirely what the cntr. of America into this war n .1 . t?k rorf lintr v i H if '

rrccurai' t,. us of , vi.-tory." HAS ARRIVED IN FRANCE tVrtalnly for ihe c.itie of the al- j lies, especially at this moment vhe:i , According to a cablegram receivro one can tell what ma hapt en in : ed in this city. V". O. Iavics has l:u.-'sd.i. M Clfmev.reau's ade.ut to arrived safely in France with other jower is an immens, uain and it , r.irm! rs of the American TI'd Cross will help to do away with ome ia:-!unit. Mr. P.i' ies. before taking up trust :;?:air.st the policy of Amr ri-j his I'.ed Cros duties, was a memra which, thanks to Cerrran a ents ,,r of the Y. M. C. A. war workand German spie, now trit to make i ers. i:.elf heard In Drar.ee. J

I will here com lüde with a per .-nal ar.ecdote whi h n-.y readers will perhaps for-giw me for re'.atin-r. The American sympathies of M. Ciemeci-tau are lurütdv due to tb-

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influence ami to the effort of a most lovely Amtri,an, who since a long time has h.-n bis Egeria, anil at .vho-o shrine he has witn an undying demotion worshipped for the la-st ') year.-. And in view of this. can (lJ;t. question the good which A m fr :can uurncn are doinir in I'nrniiP or the kt at part which they have ,iayrj and are King to pit: hi the future n the settling of the "r..it pro' -Jem of the world? The old French sa ing. "Cherchez la femme," mUht he aptly applied to the present premier of Franc; and in his case it I-? a most charming, clever intelligent and in spite of her M) years and white hair most heautiful woman for whom one must look one who is r-1 i 1 1 considered to e one of the queens of Parisian so- , j.-ty, not only In the republican, !)Ut aIf) ln th, ol(1 fashioned, ari.n- . t . , . . xocratic ciicic to wnicn sne belongs hy marriage, if not hy hinh. (Copyright, 1917) Serve Christ in Active Ways Here Says Minister "We are living between two visits of Jesus Christ to this world," .stated Rev. Horace Hastings in his sermon at the Trinity church Sun,p,v evening. He said: , "He has gone away and is coming 1 aek again. Historic Christianity has not made much of the personal appearance of Christ the seeon. 1 time. Hut to the apostles it was a constant source of Inspiration that sustained them in their wonderful tolls and trials apd conlooking any other way. Do you know skepticism comes to people who are simply doing nothing hut THE HOLY GHOST WILL CONQUER ALL SIN -Receive yo the Holy Chost?" St. John 2o-ji, was the text of the . sermon delivered by Capt. Nehemi1 ah Hrookes at the Sunday evening services of the Salvation Army. He said : "The key to a conquering Christian career is in the knowledge of definite experience of being in reeeipt if the Holv flhost. "Man without the Holy Chost fails to gain complete victory over Satem ptations." "The difference between the spirit of man and the Holy Ghost is Iran's spirit knows the things of man, whl! the Holy Chost is Cod's spirit and km-w.s the things of Cod." "Man is so constituted that he :ray receive the Holy Chost which convinces of sin. righteousness and ;ud-.ment. and reveals future thintrs pertaining to clod's kingdom." ".Te-us our I.ord said to a few ! T" at His appearance after ' ros arrection, 'Receive ye the Holy ' ' -host ?' Others tarried at Jerusab va until the day of rcnticost." "f'eter and John taught converts .it revival in Samaria to receive the Holy tlho-t. Raul preached a sermon ov. the same topic to the people of Ephcsus. John Wesley and I-'ir.ney were great by its power, and the Holy Chost has enabled the Silvntion Army to withstand all prrsecvitiov. and oppositions since its formation." "Man cannot obtain the Holy Cho.-t while retaining an obstinate. eelh or contrary spirit. Complete 'irrender to the Holy Spirit's pleadin x is absolutely essential." . J n HAVIFQ CflllTW RPMn f - mnn... . "l j 1 merCriantS I by patTcmizin that advertise.

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Director Oliver Says the City Could Clothe Enlisted Men From Here. . "If the ! 6,0Cö persons in South I!r.d between the ages of 6 and 21 years." said Joseph D. Oliver, state director of War Savings committee, "would ave 25 cents a week and invest it in Thrift stamps, the amount derived would almost feed, clothe and equip the 2. $00 boys who have enlisted from South I5end in the regllar army and navy, the national guard, national army and marine corp. '"Twenty-live cents a week from each of these 16.000 persons is a low average. I'.ut the class includes the children in the kindergarten as well as in hi.'h school and we will use it. although we know it is low, 23 cents a week from each of these 16.00-0 pemns would be $52,000 for the year. It costs Uncle Sam f211 a year to feed, clothe an.l equip one soldier for one year. This $52,000, therefore, would feed, clothe and equip about 2,4 65 men a year. I wish every' one of these 16.000 persons would get this concrete idea firmly fixed in their minds. Let those 16,000 realize that it is up to them to feed, clothe and equip the boy who have gone to the fighting; forces of the nation from South I.end and they will see that the part they can play in thU? war through the War-Savings campaign is no mean, but on the contrary, a very vtial part. "If these 16,000 persons will do this, the remaining 50,000 or so, by a systematic savings campaign, will, I believe, furnish the funds necessary to supply the munitions of wa r. "And what is true of St. Joseph county, I believe, would be true of other counties in the state. And if the county chairman will take paper and pencil and the figures to which they have access I am confident that they will find that I am pretty near right on this point." Christ's Kingdom To Stand When All Others Fall This war is bringing its results and the kingdoms of this world are falling fast and the time Is not far distant when there shall he no more kingdoms. When this happens only the kingdom of Christ will be left fctanding, tdattd Kev. A. V. Babbs. pastor of the Stull Memorial church in his ermon Sunday morning. lie further stated: At the opening of the nineteenth century the people of the Unite! States looked out on a dismal prospect. Absolute monarchies were ir all lands of Europe except France J ana tew-itztrland. The monarchs of Kurope were leading the unprivileged classes and some of the nobility against 30,000,000 of population in France under Napoleon. Napoleon's business was to defeat monarchy and install democracy although he did not know it. He supposed that he himself was to be in stalled as monarch of all Europe, but when (tod had used him as a hammer to break up and as a spade to undermine monarchies, then Deity sen: Napoleon to St. Helenfor fear he would set up another despotism to replace the old ones destroyed or being destroyed. Now in the twentieth century th o!u powe. of monarchy has largely pr.ssed over into the hands of the people. The mikado of Japan, the sultan, William 11, Alfonso of Spain, the lama of Thibet, the emperor of Austria are about all the monarchs left that are worth mentioning. George V is a monarch only in name, but a republican president in fact with a crown on his head. Soon Chri't will have no rivals. ; All kingdoms will be Christian and His. Itev. Pabbs concluded his sermon with the explanation of the Lord's powers. SINAI SOCIETY APPOINTS COMMITTEES FOR YEAR At the tegular meeting of the Sinai society Sunday afternoon in the rotary room of the Oliver hotel th following committees were appointed for the new term of office: Literary committee Chairman. Phil Weisrerger; Z. Deckelbaum Raymond Goldberg, Rabbi Julius Liebert. Freda Hershenow, Samuel Schwartz, Esther Abrams. Social committee Chairman. Miss Dora hershenow; Lawrence Gross. Cyrus Rrazy, Ray Cohen, Harry Weisberger. Dorris Silber. Membership committee Chairman. Osccr Gilbert; Sam Lvy. Madeline Fnsrer, Issador Mooran, Minnie Hurwich. Press committee Sol Hershenow Ray Cohen, Sophia Levy. Athletic committee Julius AHfehl. Sol Hershenow, Iuls Berland, Alfred Abrams, Harry Weisberger, Mrris Rossln. Abe Herwich. An address was given by Rabbi Ju'.ius Lieert on "Neo Hebrew Litprri'ure." Mis Gladys Mauer rendered a number of pieces on the violin, she being accompanied by Miss Dora Hershenow on the piano. 1 One of the difficult problems which modern army otücers have to master is how Napoleon, himself a stickler for punctuality, ever manacei 'vithnut a wrist watch. Puck.

Government Parcel Post Motor Routes Cover 4,000 Miles

!nterDitlonjl Newg SerTke: WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. Deliveries over parcel posts aggregating between 3.000 and 4,000 miles by motor truck within the next three months, was the aim announced by Postmaster Gen. Ilurleson tonight. One chain of motor truck routes will link up Portland, Me., with New Orleans and another will cover a lirce stretch of territory in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and West Virginia. Routes to lie established on the Pacific coast will pass through Stockton ami Fruitdale, between San Francisco and Sacramento, Calif., a distance of 125 miles, and through Ontario and Pomona, between Hedlands and Los Angeles, a distance of 76 miles. It is the belief of the post office department that the operation of these routes and others to be established, will materially aid in the distribution and in lowering the cost of food products. The existing law doos not provide for the employment of governmentowned motor trucks on rural delivery routes, nor does it require the rural carriers to use motor vehicles. In the star route service, however, where the mail is carried under contract, a recent law permits the post office department to designate the sort of vehicles to be employed, and in awarding new contract the department will specify that motor trucks shall be employed on all routes where the roads are such as to admit of their use. These contracts are advertised for bidders, and where payment asked for the service is deemed to be excessive the department Ls authorized to provide government-owned motor trucks and to employ drivers for the operation of these routes. A further extension of the employment of government-owned motor vehicles by its adoption for the parcel post service of the rural routes will be made whenever congress enacts a law now pending for that purpose. Operating under the law as it now stand? as applied to the star route service, motor trucks routes, some under contract and some operated with government-owned motor trucks, are in process of establishment from: New York city to Port Jervis, N. Y., via Pelleville, Montclair and Dover, N. J., a distance each way of 86 miles; New York city to Hammonton, N. J., via Mount Olive, Bordentown, Trenton, Princeton and Elizabeth, N. J., a distance each way of 114 miles; New York city to Kmton, Pa., via Montclair, Morristown and Somerville. N. J., a distance each way of M miles; New York city to New Milford. Conn., via Pawling, Yorktown Heights, Briar Cliff and Yonkers, N. Y., a distance each way of 91 miles; New York city to Hartford, Conn., via White Plains, N. Y., Danbury and Waterbury, Conn., a distance each way of 105 miles; New York city to Port Jervis. N. Y., via Goshen and Suffern, N. Y., a distance each way of 8 4 miles, and from: Philadelphia,' Pa., to Easton, Pa., via Hallowell and Doyletown, Pa., a distance each way of 56 miles; Easton to Reading. Pa., via BethleINS TRI bL Circulate Newspaper Among Italians Containing Ficticious News. WRIGHTSTOWN. N. J.. Jan. 7. Newspapers printed in Italian by the Germans containing fictitious news were circulated among the Italian soldiers previous to the Austro-German drive that overwhelmed northern Italy and had much to do in lessening the resistance of the defendere, declared James Whitmore, a member of the war council of the Young Men's Christian association, in an address to the soldiers at Camp Dix today. Mr. Whitmore, who recently returned from Europe, said that German propagandists had been working among the Italian army three months before the big drive. He said he had talked with one of the Italian othcers, formerly a NewYork contractor, who told him he had been led to believe the war wa about over, as representatives of the allies and the central powers were to meet in Switzerland to talk peace. A few days later, he continued, 2.000 Austrians "deserted" from their army and came over to the Italian army, telling the soldiers that Austria was ready for peace and that if their officers should order them to phoot at the Italians they would refuse to carry out the orders, if the Italians made a similar agreement. On the day before the drive newspapers purporting to have come from Italian towns arrived in the camp, the speaker Mid. These papers had every indication of having been printed "back home," even to the usual advertisements. In the papers were account of women and children rioting in various parts of Italy and of French soldiers shooting them down. He said the men had no way of knowing that these papers were part of the German plot. Mr. Whitmore said he believed that the "news" made the "tallan soldiers put up little or no opposition when the drive was made n the first line. Try NEWS-TIMES Want Ads

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hem and Allentown. Pa., a distance each way of 51 miles; Pottsville, Pa., to Easton, Pa., via Orwigsburg and Danielsville, Pa.; Harrisburg. Pa., to Heading, Pa., via Lebanon and Itobesonia, Pa., a distance each way of 51 miles, and Harrisburg, Pa., to Hagerstown, Md. Routes extend from Cincinnati to SprinRtield, O., via Dayton and MIamLsburg, a distance each way of 76 miles; Portland. Me., to Nashua. N. H via Portsmouth and Exeter. N. H., a distance each way of 105 miles; Nashua, N. 11., to Hartford, Conn., and Worcester and East Pepperell, Mass., a distance each way of 127 miles; Hagerstown, Md., to

Staunton, Va. anoke. Va.; Charlotte, N. ville. N. C: Staunton, Va., to Ro-Wlnston-Salem' to C; Concord to StatesCharlotte to Camden, N. C; Camden. N. C, to Columbia. S. C; Florence to Columbia. S. C. via Darlington and Lydia; Columbia, S. C. to Chapin and Lexington, a distance of 70 mile and return; Charlestown, S. C, to Columbia, S. C, via Somervillo and Orangeburg. S. C, a distance each way of 125 mifes; Orangeburg. S. C. to Au gusta, Ga., via Langley and Williston, S. C, a distance each way of 77 miles; Savannah to Statesboro, j Ga., via Pooler, Dioomingdale, Marlow and Erooklet, a distance each (way of 55 miles; Augusta to Macon, IGa.; Macon to Columbus, Ga.; Co llumbus to Montgomery, Ala.; ! Greenville, S. C, to Atlanta, Ga,; 'Atlanta, Ga., to Montgomery. Ala., (and Birmingham to Montgomery, Ala., via Verbena and Marbury. Ala., a distance each way of 106 miles. With the exception of a branch between Washington, I). C, and Richmond, Va., the course of which has not yet been decided on, a chain of routes has been adopted linking Portland, Me., with Nashua, N. II.: Nashua with Worcester, Mass.; Worcester with Hartford, Conn.; Hartford with New York city: NewYork city with Easton, Pa.; Easton with Philadelphia: Philadelphia with Oxford, Pa.; Oxford with Baljtimore, Md.; P.altimore with Wash ington, D. C; Lynchburg. Va.. with Winston-Salem, N. C.; Winston-Salem with Charlotte, N. C; Charlotte with Greenville, S. C; Greenville with Atlanta, Ga.; Atlanta, Ga.. with Birmingham or Montgomery, Ala.; Birmingham or Montgomery' with Jackson, Miss. Routes will be established Jackson to New Orleans, La., and Jackson to Mobile. These routes are now surveyed and are being advertised for bids. Where satisfactory bids are not received government-owned trucks will be used. The routes already in operation with government-owned trucks are from Washington, D. C, to Ieonardstown, Md., a distance each way of 54 miles; from Annapolis, Md.. to Solomons. Md., a distance each way of 65 miles; from Washington, D. C. to Baltimore, Md., via Ridgeville; from Baltimore to Phllidelphia. Pa., via Relalr, Md.; Oxford and West Chester, Pa., a distance each way of 110 miles; and from Baltimore to Gettysburg, Pa., via Westminster, a distance each way of 53 miles. Lloyd - George's Speech Great Historical Epoch LONDON, Jan. 7. Premier Lloyd George's speech to the delegates of the trades union on .Saturday is characterized by the weekly newspapers as marking a historical epoch in the war. The Weekly Dispatch asserts that it is a "courageous call for unity in the nation in the face of the trials and dangers that lie ahead is the best answer to the clamerous, if unimportant, minority who have been endeavoring to drive a wedge between the government and the labor party on the false plea that there are unbridgeable integral difficulties in the receptive conceptions of the war aims for which we are fighting." The News of the World declares the speech outlined the British war aims "with a degree of precision which leaves no loophole for misunderstanding." The Sunday Times says the most satisfactory phrases of the speech and the most discomforting for the Prussian war lords arc those which reveal it as "not an utterance of either more statesman or a political party, but as the considered utterance of the British people." The People asserts Mr. Lloyd George has done inestimable service to the nation and the entente allies in stating frankly and without reservation Great Britain's war aims, auü adds: "It will no longer be possible for our present enemies to press honest doubt as to what we are lighting for. or to delude any intelligent Grman with the fable that our aim is the destruction or the disruption of the German state or its people." i'iuiMii:n s spiix:ii MK17TS APPROVAL LONDON. Jan. 7. Premier Lloyd George's speech meets with more general approval than most of his former utterances. feJames Ramsay MacDonald, socialist and labor member of parliament, addressing a meeting of laborites at Glasgow today, contrasted the Premier Staurday sp&sii with former speeches and said the premier's latest speech was far more reasonable and calm; it was the speech of a man who felt his tremendous respondtility and who saw clearly above and behind the battlefield all the problems which would have to be settled afterwards. How much better it would hve

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been, faid Mr. MacDonald, if no other than that kind of a speech had heen delivered since August, 1&14. The leader of the IJritish socialists, Henry M. Hindman, in the course of an interview, described the premier's sp-eeh as a general statement of GreU Britain's intentions as "satisfactory and that an overwhelming majority of Englishmen would support." Mr. Ilindman pointed out the contradiction between Pres't Wilson's statement of no peace with the Hohenzollerns and Ijoyd Oeorpe's repudiation of a desire to change the present government of Germany and complained of lack of definiteness in the details, concerning especially the settlement of territorial questions in eastern Europe, lie declared that to leave Turkey in control of the most important portion of the empire was only justifiable hy an immediate separate peace with Turkey, Kivinp the allies the right to send warrhips into the Black sea. FKF.XCII IWPKKS os ghiut srinxii FAItIS, Jan. T. -'- The newspapers attribute capital importance to the speech of David Lloyd Georpe. La Liberte likens it to a strong breeze that is "going to db.-ipate all the clmids that Germany and her agents and accomplices have thrown around the war aims of the allies." The Intransigeant calls it a diplomatic; act of great importance. The Temps, after nt'tins that it was to the German people Lloyd George spoke when he recalled that the prolongation of the war intensifies the scarcity of raw materials more and more and that producers would be obliged to reserve them first for their own needs and then for the needs of friendly nations, adds: "When listening to the solemn words that have jut been sounded in London, the diplomats and publicists over the Iihine perhaps are poinf: to sneer. But there is a tragic reality which cannot indefinitely conceal from their fellow citizens that is if Germany remains as she appears to the wo-!d today, perpetually thirsting for domination and perpetually convicted of bnd faith, she will remain isolated after the war as she has be-n blockaded during the war. May the Germans rest on that perspective."

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Entente's Food Situation Grows Critically Grave WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. The lood situation in the allied countries of Kuropn is graver than it hn b-on at any time since th beginning of the war and is giving American government officials d-p concern. OJficial reports picture extreme food shortages in England, France and Italy. The fact that conditions in Germany and Austria are far wors" offers the only grounds fur optimism in viewing the situation. If Kngland and Trance the situation is described as critical m a cable to the food administration from Ixrd Rhonda, the British food controller. which concludes with these words: "I view the situation with grae anxiety." Yesterday a cablegram from the French government .v.ii.l that the wheat crop had been requisitioned and that the read ration would be cut to allow only seven ounces of bread daily to all persons exempt the very poor and thoe loing harl manual labor. In Italy conditions are not as pood perhaps as in either England or France. Oomrvulsory rationing will !e started In Hnuland immediately with meat?, the first commodity to be put under control. I i.-trHutior. of butter and margarine will be taken in hand next and other foods will be rationed Tr.y April. "I have repeatedly said in public and In private that there is no reason for Immediate alarm, although there i- every reason for strict economy and precautionary measures." said Lord ithondda's message. "Thea"' statements in s-jme instance have been twiste, ir.to a declaration that there is plenty of food in England and France. "The food position in thi country and I understand in France also, can, without exaggeration be described a.s critical an 1 arr!oi;s. As I am now ur.aM to avoid compulsory rationing. I fear it will have to come with long queues of per,. ;! .awaiting in the cover weathcjn -cticallv everv town 'r Fr.g-

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