Vienna's Extremity

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 December 1915, Page 2

Vienna's Extremity

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li'ie uilhciilucs a'Uuiit Vienna food supplies iuive become so urgent tiuat the Austrian Government iiavo ordered the

•'Obmanner" of tho viaxious conimunes o. the city to meet, 'with the object oi discussing Pleasures to be taken to wurd off famine.

At tho mcetiug held at the Kathaus a number of apceclieb were made whicL the Censor luis suppiefcsed, but tho in permitted to bo printed reveal a most serious state ol affairs. Communal Councillor -Neumann declared that the time is inevitably coming when the question must be asked straight out. How i§ a 'working family to lind nourishment? At present, he said*, he could lrad~ho answer. Meat has readied;'a price which puts it out of question. Tlie iriofit ordinary quality of beef, .n----cluding bone, is '2s a pound, or about treble the price at the beginning ot -the war. Pork and veal are equally ii f prohibitive prices. have reached a figure Avhieh excludes thorn from the pool , main's table, and eveii sausage fragments And parings are getting beyond reach. Vegetables of all sorts, .sayß Heir Neumann', are rising by leaps and bounds, and fowls simply cannot be _,' The coars-est-Kinds of fish have doubled in price, and the finer sorts have totally disappeared. .'■ 'iWHAT' ARE WE TO EAT V\ Another speaker asked, despairingly, "What arc we to eatH Bread? But the bread * ration is so pedantically imeasured by the bread-card that women and their starving children are

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wailing audi 'begging for an increase 6i their ration." Milk is at an exorbitant price, so are eggs, so k butter. Tho iJurgermeibter hud something to say about, eggs. At this time of year it «s usual ior \ tonna dealers to store twenty million preserved eggs lor \umer purposes, aim vienuajias not stored a .siugtu egg. With regard tj iLuead, no auvouateii tiie raising oi the (.tuny latiou iiom 26U to *20 grams (,Uoz to iduiijj but he doubted very mu<;u ■whether LJie .supplies ilie disposal -il the uoiernmeni wouldl allow oi' tliis. i>r Jamock, one oi tiie ofiieitils oi the .Municipality, stated that the num uer ui men doing heavy work wlio e .bread: uition had been increased had risen during tiie past six months irom IO,OUU to G3,UGO, but he doubted whether this'could go on indeiinitei). There had also been laxity in admitting the claims oi a number of mo.i who, it lias since been proved, received die higher ration on false' preten* ces, and great care must be taken in future to verily a man's statement that he is engaged on severe physical work. The "Obmaiiner" afterwards m-jt -Ministers, but beyond an official declaration that the Government 1 " ivlvb animated by a. desire to improve matters, nothing was done. As the "Aribeiter Zeitung" saj's goodwill alono will not supply the population with broad andi unerffc.