IN THE GRIP OF A WAR FAMINE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3011, 23 February 1917, Page 5

IN THE GRIP OF A WAR FAMINE

APPALLING STATE OF AUSTRIAN CITIES . London. February 21.

A well-informed Budapest correspondent, writing to the "Morning Post," shows that the situation in Austria and Hungary is acute, especially in the big cities. The situation at Prague is almost inconceivable, the city being absolutely without fuel, including the hospitals at the famous Prague Qlinique, where all serious operations bavo been postponed. The appalling situation at Vienna and Budapest can be partially realised from the faot that it ig officially ■ admitted that 73 per cent, less foodstuffs are coming in than, was the case a few weeks ago, consequently tens of thousands of people are literally starving owing to the closing of the publio kitchens. , < Meanwhile the newspapers are full of telegrams from Berlin stating that Italy, Franoe, and England are on starvation rations j that England must succumb; but the populace is past caring what happens in England. Theywant food, and something to cook it with.— Keuter, . . • AILING CHILDREN OF BERLIN. MASS DEPORTATIONS FOB, "HBAI/TH REASONS." Amsterdam! February 91. The "Vorwaerts" states that the mass deportation of ailing children from Ber- ' lin has been planned in order to relieve the food shortage in the town, secure healthier conditions, and help agrioulture. —Renter. BIG STEIKe'at'kBUPPS, ' ■.- Amsterdam, February 21. There has been a strike at Krupps for the past fdrtnight. Seventeen thousand workmen demand better food and wages. Some were sent to the front aa punishment.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.