FOOD FOR EUROPE

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3737, 24 March 1919, Page 1

FOOD FOR EUROPE

THE GERMAN NEEDS

WTLL HASTEN THE SIGNING OF

PEACE

THREE CRITICAL MONTHS

COMING

(Aus.-N.Z. Cable Association.)

. Paris. March 17. Tbe Anglo-American food delegates have returned from Bhussels. They state that- their impression is that Germany will sign the peace treaty without' haggling.; hoping to be permitted to have an opportunity to pay damages to the Allies, and then be allowed to develop her own industries and trade generally. It is understood that the Economic Commission will favour complete abandonment of the blockade restrictions iinmediatelv Peace is signed. New York. March 18. Interviewed at Paris, Mr Hoover said tbnt the United tSates must food more than a hundred million people in Europe. He said tho critical months for tlie world would bo April, May. and Juno. After that the people would begin to reap the harvest, thereby improving the situation. He said that the 'United States was now bearing the burden of delivering foodstuffs, but tho task was too great for one country to bear. France and Italy had only enough tonnage for their own needs and the sacrifice must come from the British and American tonnage.