STARVING AUSTRIA
APPEAL BY DR.. RENNER. Paris, Decembsr 12. Dr. Renner (Chancellor of the Austrian Republic), in an interview, depicted the latest aspects-of monevless and foodless jiustria, and demanded: "How 'an the Western Christian world celebrate Christmas,' while it is faced on its doorstep by six million people dying of hunger? The problem l-a« notlvng to do with economics or no!itics; it is a question of lunnanilv. Wholesale plundering has begun in the Tyrol, and the crimcs are so pathetic that tho Courts refuse to convict. If the Allies do not rirov'de fc and credits not later i than January, the whole country will collapse into .inarch), which will not be based on any political cn'rd, and certainly not on Bolshevism; but will be due to the sheor animal cr.iv'mr for something to cat.—"Tho Times."
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 70, 16 December 1919, Page 9
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135STARVING AUSTRIA Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 70, 16 December 1919, Page 9
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