Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-03-06 | Page 14 | Italian Blockade on Food Causes Bitterness

I ITALIAN BLOCKADE II ON FOOD CAUSES BITTERNESS British and French in Paris Are Outspoken in Criticism By Associated Press PARIS March The BritIsh and I French delegates here have been bitterly bitterly bit bit- terly outspoken in the supreme war council and the supreme economIc council in criticIsm of the food blockade blockade block block- ade which the Italian government is maIntainIng against Dalmatia BosnIa Herzegovina Croatia and Slovenia The new built out of the old AustrIan empire are upon by the entente as a protection against the Bol- Bol wave waye and the food shortage in them is creating chaos I Iless While the American delegates are less outspoken en than the British and French they are concerned over the situation which is stoppIng all Amen Amen- can relief relic work Italy Is entirely dependent upon the United States for food staples re elving elv- elv ing credIts through the American treasury with which to ma make e I es The persistence of the Italian blockade and what is charged as the I efforts of Italy to obtain political advantages advantages ad- ad vantages are creating such bitterness that some of the European representatives representatives tives are suggesting the possibility of the discontinuance of American relief for Italy Early in February an Italian tary missIon penetrated Slav JUgo populated terrItory at Laibach and settled set set- tIed in the town The Slavs Jugo-Slavs feel that sInce their union with Serbia they are not the enemies o of Italy Itay and they resent the occupatIon of Flume Fiume and the Dalmatian coast by the Italian army Consequently they forced the Italian mission to leave Laibach on February 19 The Italians retorted 1 by establishing establish establish- ing a food blockade against all Jugo- Jugo Slav territory This blockade has aiso affected the American relief work for both Bohemia and Moravia