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Show DIRECTOR GENEEAi OT RAILROADS RAIL-ROADS WALKER D. HINES, whose administration is left in air by the failure of congress to pass needed appropriations. 1 1 fy ' " ' I HJ . V ' 1 ' t s ' siri ft-t J: is r H f I I ht f vn j ! ' f i r i , ii Ml NATIONS IN SOHEpUIS Allies Recognize Need of Immediate . Relief in Food Supplies. By RICHARD V. OULAHAN. (New York Times Cable, Copyright.) , PARIS, March 4. The food situation In ?hcmy countries is becoming desperate and the peace delegates realize that something some-thing must be done immediately to remedy rem-edy conditions. Bohemia Is particularly badly off. Bavaria is In such straits that Bolshevism is gaining headway and disorders are likely to increase. The supreme 'council lias taken measures meas-ures to furnish food quickly to those parts of Austria and southern Germany where the needs are the greatest. Improvement in the German situation has been produced by the French acceptance accept-ance In principle of the contention of the other powers that Germany must be allowed al-lowed to use her private credits in the neutral countries to buy food from the allies. France, however, has not yet signed the agreement to that effect. A meeting of the interallied economic council witii Bernard Baruch and the chief American representatives is being held today to-day at Spa and it is hoped that all details for feeding Germany will be arranged. The (Continued on Page 2. Column 6.) ENEMY NATIONS If! SORE STRAITS (Continued from Page One.) German emissaries are participating. The plenipotentiaries of other nations had difficulty dif-ficulty in persuading the French that there was marked difference between tne German government assets and the foreign credits of German subjects. It was contended con-tended by the French that no German assets as-sets of any character should be used for any other purpose than satisfying the bill for reparation which the allies will present. pre-sent. The French now concede the distinction between government and private credits and agree that German credits in neutral neu-tral countries shall be applied to the purchase pur-chase of food 'from the allies. Agreements also have been reached that the neutral countries of northern Europe may import 'products hitherto refused them to an amount equal to the importations importa-tions before the war. |