ENGLISH GIRLS FROM AUSTRIA.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 113, 26 November 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)

ENGLISH GIRLS FROM AUSTRIA.

WHAT THEY WERE TOLD ( BRITAIN'S "TRAMP" ARM

Three young women named have arrived at Skelmanthorpe, Huddesfield, England, from Rei berg, Austria, where st 11 remain father and mother, one s ster, an< brothers. Their father, a plush f er, emigrated from Huuuersfield ii years ago. Their reason for returning to land is that they were unable to o work except in the ammunition fi ies. The cost of living, they say gone up 100 per cent., and their i, was unable to support the whole >ly. No obstacle was placed in way when they requested to be all to return to England, and the Vi States Consul advanced them the 1 sary money. They were detained ten days at na while inquiries were being mad pa6sportc> secured. The Austrian tal appeared as before the war, bi dancing halls were closed, Regarding the food in Austrii young women stated >n an inte that the bread, obtained on the 1 system as in Germany, is made c from maize Hour, so that it rese yellow sponge cake. "Half an after a meal one is hungry agatf Austria people are told that n| England is at famine prices, that; land des'res peace, and that the B public is terrorised by ZeppelinsJ

Much was made in Austria at C n.as of the east coast bombard and the Misses Hirst were amaz learn that Scarborouga is much as al. It was freely 6aid that En had scarcely any army at all, an idea of raising new armies was ridiculed. Lord Kitchener, it was ed, was making himself the lau stock of Europe with h ; s army of inals, convicts, and tramps, men had not done any work for year cause no one would employ them So much concerned were the 1 tiir.it, about the new British that when they reached Paris the up to the first man they saw in to have a good look at him. H not a tramp," 6aid one of the ; women, " but a Colonial who was amused when told of the reasq the curious eyes we turned upon England was everywhere in A blamed for the war, and gold were to be had bearing the inscr "Gott strafe England."