AUSTRIA’S BITTER WAGE.

Taihape Daily Times, 19 September 1919, Page 3

AUSTRIA ’ S BITTER WAGE.

DAILY LINEUP FOR FOOD. ‘LONDON, Aug. 15. V Ml‘ E. R. Peacock, who is Studying the post-war conditions in Central Europe with aview to articles for the Sun, sens from Vienna and Budapest a. graphic picture of industrial stagnation -and physical and mental depression of the scmi—starved peoples. He says:—— “It would be a niagnificcnt thing could Australia share the eiforts which Anrerica. leads, for ,relicvin~g the terrible misery and destitution. The Americans have contl'ibuted 150,000,000 dollars in order to save the children of Austria.-Hullg\a.r),; Rouin.alria_, »,_Czecllo-4 Slovakia. Jugoslavia, Poland, and Finland. This money Will suiiice until midwinter, but the necessity for help will continue much longer. There are 200,000 children to be fed in Austria, and the supply meeting the inerest particle of the existing needs. AMERICANS’ S'PLENDID HELP. “The Ainerican helpers are Sple'ndid~ ly active. No wonder the Americans everywhere .are maliiiig-inroads upon the affections of Europe. The famous Belvedere and Schoanbrun palaces at Vienna. are converted into kitchens, at which the workers arid the children are _e;;i\'4_‘ll :1 meal daily. while the children of‘ the oflieial class feed amongst the ','ion“<‘.~".l oi’ the city at the Eugen Palace_ Riekets are prev.a‘xleilt owing to malnutrition, but the doctors say that the .—‘\mericaii help was given just in time to :"re\*ent perinunent in.inr_\' to the child. ren of all classes. “Vienna’s uncnfployed number 140,000_ and their dependents 400,000. The distress is increasing, as the absence of coal and raw niaterials, paralyses the factories. The people live partly by barter, gnadualfly pal'ting with their stCck-iil-tl'ado- - "WITH MISFORTUNES. “The depreciation of the currency has impoverished everybody. The krone ‘(formerly worth 10d) is now worth under 2d in English money. I’\'e neve" had more money in my life, _*;{:t I have ucxer been S 0 ‘tpoor. li‘.;verything I want. is out of reach,’ said a prominent I'es".rlent. A "l".'il' Davidson, organiser of the League tn the Red Cross S'Oci(-ties, declared f}.;~,f people in other aountries would not stem) if they realised the intensity of lirrnaai sllifel'ing in(_‘,entral Europe. “Miss Sehalek, a traveller and tautho;-_ visited Austria in 1918, and said mat the people were ;lazed with their misfortfunes and uncertainties of the out]o(,k_ “Thy go tolmusic in Order to bury their sorrows.’ The people Show a pathetic eagerness to win back the affection of the British.’ ’