AUTHOR DIES OF STARVATION

Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1930, Page 2

AUTHOR DIES OF STARVATION

BUDAPEST, December 3. f \ Tlie death 'from chronic starvation in a. Budapest nursing home of the Hungarian author Eugene Tomory lias revealed a tragedy that until the last was unsuspected even by his friends.-: ]'t was known that Tomory, who had been a member of the National Assembly from 1920 to 1922, was. in straitened circumstances, but only his death • lias revealed the true pd£iti,6n. /| Though renowned for great beauty y., of style, the philosophic/character of ; his works account for their failure to achieve popular appeal. As a former official of the National Health Insurance Department he re/ ceived 30s a. month while his income from other .sources could hardly have supplemented this by much, j Latterly he had taken to eating praci tic-ally nothing at all forrdays on end iso that liis two children, aged 6 and / I might have sufficient food -to maintain life. Yet he bore his sufferings with such fortitude that nobody .who assoj ciated with him in the final weeks of his life suspected the true cause of h s obvious decline. When taken to a nursing home last week his weak and emaciated state, due to prolonged fasting, made him unable to withstand the operation undertaken in the hope of relieving a serious intestinal complaint brought about by his privations. Eugene Tomory was buried in a grave of honour at the expense of the municipality of Budapest, a mark of distinction which is reserved for Hungary’s greatest sons.