Starvation Diet.
APPALLING CONDITIONS IN VIENNA. Received fcliis day, 10.10 a.m. New York. December 17. Beatrice Baskerville. the New York World's correspondent at Viemja. savs the food conditions there are appalling. Vienna needs everything from -coal to clothing. Even the ririh. are existing on dry breadi, Swedish frozen sauerkraut and sugar bec-ts. THo poor people are trying to exist on one pound of potatoes a week and one pound a" tliree-quan'ters of bread. Acorn coffc replaces the real" thing. Dried oak * leaves are used as a substitute for tobacco, and dried hickory andi strawberry leaves are substitutes for tea. Flour is sold by the profiteers at three dollars per pound. Thie Government allows unemployed workmen one dollar twenty cents daily. This is not sufficient to buy bread.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 19 December 1918, Page 3
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