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Show HOW ALLIES CAN WIN GREAT WAR Recently Released Italian Doctor Doc-tor Reviews War Conditions and Advises Strictest - Economy. ROME, Feb. 26. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) "The allies can win this war only by holding on, by tho exertion of economic pressure in tho central empires and by rigid j economy at homo," In the opinion of Dr. Massimo Pantaleoni of tne Italian j army, who has just been exchanged after twenty months as a prisoner in Austria and Hungary. Dr. Pantaleoni, although Italian by birth, has many relatives in the United States. "The secret of winning tho war," said Dr. Pantaleoni, "remains in tne blockade and in tho allies at homo ex-cerclslng ex-cerclslng tho greatest economy but so organizing that economy in tho way of limitaotlon of consumption of foods and fuels and clothes that people Tviil not bo compelled to loso several hours of tholr time each day searching for coal, or bread, or such articles. Hard Times In Austria. 'It Is like passing from darkness into daylight on leaving Austria, where the stores are empty of all useful articles, arti-cles, cloth sells at about the equivalent equiva-lent of 26 a yard, whero leather shoes sell for 120 kronen the pair, whero thoro Is no sugar at all for sale, where tho bread rato for the civil population is two and a half ounces for. each person per-son per day, whero the fat ration is one quarter of an ounce and where potatoes sell for 20 scents a pound instead in-stead of two cents a pound before the war. "In Austria mortality has increased very much since a year ago because of poor, or no nourishment, leading to rheumatism and dysentery, and when people die there aro no coffins in which to bury them. Instead, their shrouds and good clothes are replaced by rags and in these they are buried. "Living conditions have not been improved by the taking of Rumania. "While in Hungary attending Italian Ital-ian prisoners, who had been sent as far away as possible from tho Isonzo front so that they could not escape and go home, Rumanians told me civil conditions had been such in Rumania that the fields had not been worked and therefore the crops had been poor. View of United States Entry. "As regards the entrance of the United States into the war, both Germans Ger-mans and Austrians said the effectivo result would be more in money aid materials furnished than in fighting units, duo to difficulties of troop transportation. They say that it is hardly worth while attempting to cap-turo cap-turo or destroy enemy artillery because be-cause new cannot will be forthcoming from the United States. "The Austrian people have been indifferent in-different about the war for a long time. They want peace, any kind of a peace, and the longer tho war lasts the less they have to keep the war going, i ne Germans are still possessed of tho monomania of domination, of wishing to grab all they see, to take, take, take; but time is sure to bring them to their knees, to cut down their fight-inf fight-inf materials, while that of the allies keeps on growing, and this is why I maintain that the allies must win if they resist, if they exert economic pressuro on themselves, and refuse to patch up a peace. Germans Nov Seriously Afraid. "The Germans now aro seriously afraid of the English and Frencu, because be-cause they realize their superiority in fighting materials. "All that has been said about the ill-treatment ill-treatment of tho prisoners is true. They are so poorly fed that if they fall ill they aro sure to die, ns their bodies have no resisting power. Most of their illnesses are in the intestines, or of a bronchial nature leading to tuberculosis. tubercu-losis. Their food consists, in the camps, of soup made of beets In t..ei proportion of one-half pounc a day for! each man, with sometimes a potato i and two ounces of m'eat once a week. In tho hospital of Sigmundsherberg, where I served, a hospital arranged for 3000 men, tho death roll has risen from one man overy two days to threo And four a day. "Prisoners put on government work last about two months. Tho phrase 'prisoners step' has passed Into the language, so feebly do tho gangs shuffle shuf-fle along, without power to lift their j feet from the ground. Also, tho Austrian Aus-trian soldiers aro very cruel, snooting or bayoneting prisoners for thcslight-1 est in fraction of rules." 1 |