CRISIS IN VIENNA

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 81, 31 December 1919, Page 7

CRISIS IN VIENNA

RAILWAY TRAFFIC SUSPENDED

ENORMOUS PRICES FOR FOOD AND CLOTHING (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyriirlit (Ego. December 80. 11.35 p.m.) London, December 29. The "Daily Chronicle's" Vienna correspondent states Ulint the- crisis is daily becoming more serious. Passenger traffic on tho railways is suspended for a fortnight owing to lack of coal, nad snowstorms are blocking goods traffic. Tho country is manufacturing practically nothing, and peasants aro chnr-'ing enormous prices for food. Thr" 'ward tho notes received .in payment instead of banking them, so that tho Government is forced continually to print fresh currency. It is feared that the peasants will shortly refuse (o deliver foods, saying that they have enough notes* A hundred kroner, formerly worth eighty shillings, are now worth five A man's suit, which previously cost eighty kroner, is now sold for three thousand kroner. An ordinary meal costs -from thirty to fifty kroner. Skilled mechanics are now receiving' c. thousand kroner ninthly, where previously they were paid 120 kroner. A majority of other workers mo faring worso than tho poorest beggars'.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.