Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-02-28 | Page 9 | Food for Poland Reaches Danzing

I I F FOOD FOR POLAND D I REACHES DANZIG Hoover Makes Report on Conditions in New j I Republic i I By Associated Fress I rAItiS PAlUS Feb Herbert Hoover I director general or of the rei relief re- re i lief organization has issued the the- following tolI tol- tol I I lowing statement I II I The American steamer Westward IIo reached Danzig yesterday carrying i iI tons tong or of food for roand the gift i I of combIned AmerIcan committees ot of 1 J Jews ws and Poles The rood food will be 1 rush rushed d to Warsaw b by rail for tor distribution I tion by local committees under direction lion tion ot of representatives ot of the United United States StateR relief relict administration n on the I plan so successfully operated In DelI Del Del- glum and northern France I I A total of tons ot of food lies has I II I reached Danzig lg for Poland during the I past three weeks This Is the begin begin- I I ning of a 8 total monthly program of tons necessary pending the 1919 J crop Other shIps are en route Local Loc cooJ cooperation Is extensive and intelligent and each fresh arrival ot of otI food Is received with honors by the I pubic and is I accepted as proof that America will see to It that the new reI republic re- re I public has n a chance to feed fe d Itself and quickly become sell self supporting Tine The relief administration reports I I Indicate that there Is a a. shocking need for tor clothing ot of every sort It Is a tact fact that In the mining and Industrial districts dIs- dIs many mam women cannot leave leae their homes oms and many children cannot attend at- at tend school because they have absolutEly absolutely no shoes and no clothing with I which to mane male the kind of foot wrappings wrap wrap- a pings flings still frequently s seen cn in Belgium and northern FrancE Neither stocks of clothing nor shoes exist In Pol Poland nd nor is hI therE raw material from Crom which to o I kr hem bem