CONDITIONS IN VIENNA
TERRIBLE STORY OF STARVATION AND DISEASE. (Hoc. December 29, 7.10 p.m.) London, December 28. The "Sunday Express's" Vienna correspondent stales that scurvy, hunger, and typhus are beginning to devastate tho population, of which 90 per cent. iv(-.! wily ••our cabbage lor flieir Christmas dinner. Seventy-four thousand unemployed tramp the streets. Tho police arc armed with revolvers and guard every railway wagon to prevent looting. Tho fashionable quarter swarms_ with starving, bare-footed children, pitiably begging. Wounded soldiers He on tho pavements, exposing the stumps of limbs, suppurating owing to lack of surgical treatment; while tho big holds aro filled with i;vmlod, bloated food prohlocrs, who ore responsible for sucking tho lust drops O'' \i:stria's life-blood.—United Service
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 80, 30 December 1919, Page 5
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118CONDITIONS IN VIENNA Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 80, 30 December 1919, Page 5
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