Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-04-04 | Page 2 | Prompt Relief for Montenegro Being Urged

PROMPT RELIEF 1 FOR MONTENEGRO BEIN0 URGED N'KW YORK'. April 3 Prompt reliofj for the people of Montenegro who arcl ! officially reported to be dying from I starvation is urged in a letter written by Alexander Devine, an English ' friend of Montenegro, to ReTfjerl C, Hoover, the food administrator in! Paris, a copy of which has been re-' cetved here, in his letter Mr. Devine charged that there had been "very gross unfairnesr to Montenegro in the endless delays and obstacle-; which had been placed In my way" In efforts to obtain relief for the Montenegrins. Mr '!ein' wrote that he first appealed ap-pealed to the British authorities in be half of the Montenegrins In 1 9 1 6 but that up to the signing of the armistice, armis-tice, "not as much as a grain of rhc ever wa permitted to enter Montenegro." Montene-gro." After the armistice he renew ed his effort and tlnally was referred to Mr. Hoover in Paris but for two months was unable to obtain a pass- port to go to Paris and tee him and I Colonel Anderson of the American Red Cross. Finally, Mr levino wrote he had arrived In Paris to find Mr. Hoover absent Meanwhile, he de-l I clared. American relief ships had ar I rived at Cattaro but "the relief fell info the hands of the Serbians and aided aid-ed them in the political purposes' 'against king and country." These de-j 1 lays and obstacles. Mr. Devine told Mr. Hoover, demonstrated unfairness to Montenegro and, he added I have no senae of having obtained justice during these long weary months of waltlnc " Since Mr. Devlne's letter was writ ten. a commission has been sent to Montenegro by the American peace delegation in France nnd has reported that the situation In Montenegro is desperate and th" people actually dying dy-ing from starvation. The American Red CrOBfl has been trying to supply them with food.