A TERRIBLE PICTURE OF AUSTRIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 204, 17 May 1918, Page 5

A TERRIBLE PICTURE OF AUSTRIA

THE WOLF AT THE DOOR, (Ecc. May 1(5, 8.30 p.m.) London; May 15. • The Agrani (Croatia, Hungary) newspaper "Glasslaboda" draws a terribie picture of tho distress in Bosnia and Herzegovina.' "It is worso (-veil in Galicia and Bukowiua. Whole districts have been devastated and depopulated. Numerous inhabitants who Dave been deported have died in the internment camps. Those remaining were massacred by the .Austrian soldiery, or died of starvation. The deaths exceeded the births by fivo thousand in 11115, and by 23,711 in 191 G. ■ This mortality does i.ot mciv.de thoso who had fallen on tho battlefield. The whoio of the livo stock has been destroyed and consumed by the Army, and it is impossible to cultivate for new crops owing to tho ateenco of oxen.— Renter.

STRICKEN INTERNALLY (Rec. Msy 16, 8.30 p.m.) Rome, May 15. Tho gravity of tho internal conditions in Austria is illustrated by a meeting representative of all classes at Trieste, demanding succour. Tho notice calling the gathering stated that Trieste vas without reserves or rosourccs. "Wo refuse to die of starvation. Even people who were rich before the war now live by begging- and on public charity. Malnutrition and hunger prevent the workers doing their doily tasks. The statistics of tho sick and dead aro terrifying. The city declines to beconio a cemetory. If tho Government will not provide for the inhabitants they will not die of starvation, but will prefer any other death."—Reuter.