THE CONDITION OF AUSTRIA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 32, 8 June 1915, Page 4

THE CONDITION OF AUSTRIA.

A lady correspondent at Horne writing on April 3rd regarding the conditions in Austria remarks: Austria, at the dictation of Germany, was the first to draw tliri sword, and so I venture to 'prophesy she will he the first to perish by the sword. Despite the Austrian Press being doubly muzzled, and the Austrian frontiers sealed, however, 1 do manage to receive direct and trustworthy information !'••» m Austria-Hungary. Although amuse-

menU are not altogether banned in Vienna, any merriment is somewhat artificial and forced. AH available buildings have been converted into hospitals, and there is great clanger, especially as the spring advances, ol smallpox and olner uuectioiis diseases inci.asuig ueyonu all boaitus. A great deal m agitation lias been going on in Vicuna for uie mtrocuict.oa 01 compulsory v.icciiiai/iou, nut tms iuea.Mi.c- nus iiot yet ueen taken, aim i uu- ir cue reurnii i., tu.it lucre arc lar coo lew doctors to uo tne vaccinating. duly a niiuimuiii 01 nieuical men . are left in Vienna to do the work there, all the outers Having been call-1 ea to the front, car the worst epidemic in Austria-Hungary at present,; however, is spotted typhus, tne rava-. ges or wlucii arc, nevertheless, at pre-j sent, chiefly connued to districts where refugees have congregated. Some camp, of Galician refugees are wholly isolated, in order to cueck the spread of this disease, which is extraordinarily fatal, and of which several end-' nont Austrian doctors have already died.