RUSSIAN PRISONERS IN GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 118, 12 February 1919, Page 7

RUSSIAN PRISONERS IN GERMANY

DYING OF STARVATION AND COLD. Paris, February 9. Terrible reports have reached the Peace Council regarding 1,100.000 Russian prisoners of war in Germany. A hundred thousand of them need urgent medical attention, and are dying in hundreds from starvation and cold. They are receiving barely half the food required to keep a unemployed nian alive. TJie American Red Cross is sending two shiploads of food and clothes in the meanwhile.—"The Times." SITUATION IN VIENNA AND BUDAPEST ALLIED ECONOMIC HELP URGENTLY NEEDED. Paris, February 9. The financial, economic, and political situation in Vienna and Budapest is extremely precarious. The value of currency is depreciating because the Austrians are printing notes voluminously, and have only a one per cent, gold reserye. Forty- thousand Hapsburg ofh'cer.s aril thousands of officials are idle, with no prospects of work. A sort of dull fatalism is arising. Allied economic help has become urgent.—"The Times." AERIAL SERVICES A SOUTH AFRICAN PROJECT. / Cape Town, February 10. ■-"A Johannesburg message states that a company is being formed, called the South African Aerial Transports, Ltd., with a capital of .CIOO.OOO, to establish an aerial passenger and mail service . between Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town, and Durban. Four of the largest niaohines have already been ordered. The estimated time from Johannesburg to Cape Town is twelve hours, and the return fare is to be .£2o—Aus.-N.Z. Ca»»!e Aesn. ' SWEDISH AVIATOR TO FLY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. ■New York, February 10. Captain Hugo Sundstedt, a Swedish aviator, expects.to start soon upon a transatlantic flight, from Newfoundland to London, using a seaplane.—Aue.-N.Z. Cable Assn.