NOT STARVING, BUT ALWAYS HUNGRY.

Taihape Daily Times, 27 August 1918, Page 3

NOT STARVING, BUT ALWAYS HUNGRY.

From many Austro-Hungarian prisoners captured by the Kalians, interesting information has been gained of conditions on the battleu'ont as well as in the Dual Monarchy itself. Officers and men agree that things along the front are going badly, and that although they are not actually starving they are "always hungry." Horses dying from exhaustion or wounds are at once cut up and eaten by the troops. There is a great scarcity of food throughout both Hungary and Austria, and disturbances caused by disaffected soldiers returning from captivity in Russia are frequent occurrences. To make matters worse this year's crop is a very poor one, no food is Doing sent from the Ukraine, and the poor people have little or nothing to exist on. In the towns and cities provisions can be obtained only in small quantities at exorbitant prices. In the country districts secret hoarding makes life a little easier.