Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-15 | Page 16 | Emphasizes Size Starving Nations

EMPHASIZES SIZE OF TASK TO FEED STARVING NA TIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 14. The size of the task the "United States and allies have undertaken in agreeing to provision Germany Ger-many was emphasized here tonight by Major Henry C. Emery, former head of the tariff commission, who returned to the United States recently after eight months spent In a German prison camp, and under surveillance in Berlin. Major Evans, formerly a professor at Yale, declared that there is a serious shortage of all foods and material supplies sup-plies throughout Germany. Major Emery was captured by the Germans Ger-mans on the Aland islands last March while he was on his return from Russia, whither ho had been sent to make an economic survey for a New York bank. BERLIN, Nov. 14. (By wireless to London, Lon-don, 1 p. m.) (By the Associated Press.) The German light cruiser Koenigsberg on November 13, at 1 p. m., put to sea with plenipotentiaries of the workmen's and soldiers' council of the German fleet in order to meet the representatives of the British admiralty.