WHAT AUSTRIANS ARE TOLD

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 44, 15 November 1917, Page 9

WHAT AUSTRIANS ARE TOLD

ABOUT "ENGLAND'S SAB PLIGHT." Doubtless with tbo object of eiicbnraging their own people, the Austrian newspapers,, says litmter'a Komo correspondent, ' aT6 publishing the most fantastic reports of the state of affairs in the Entente c6nn : tries, especially England and Italy. The. "Neue Freie Presse,". for 'instance, fitatea that there is now a Committee of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates controlling tho action of (ho Government as in Russia; tha.fc Mr. Lloyd George is so unpopular that he is obliged to go about by back streets closely guarded by policemen for fair of his life; and ihnl thoro are riots everywhere against the war. As to Italy, they say that she is on the vergo of revolution and tion, that in that ennntry cloth wine!. cost 16 frnncs n. Metro now costs 100 francs, and that soap and fals a.'o no longer to bo obtained. It need hardly bo said tliat there is not a word of truth in all this as regards Italy. An ordinary suit of clothes, which before the war cost 120 francs, ran now be got for 150; fats and oils are plentiful, in fact, in larger quantities than before, as Italians are not allowed Jo export them; and as to soap, although it has increased in price, there is sunh a quantity that it is tho fcrct thing dstributed in abundance among Austrian prisoners, who look as if they hi<d jiot Been anything of the kind for months.