CRUMBLING TO CHAOS.
A London cable of rectent duh; said Sir William Goode, Dil'ectol' of Re‘:im‘.‘. gives a tel'l'ii)le pictfwfe of winter privations in Central Elll'o}_w. Sulnnlarls'nlg ‘the results of his I£Lt’es‘( inqllil'ies, he stated that he found one of the main streets of Vienna blocked daily with hearses, nine—tenth_s of them cal'l'ying the bofiies of a:-.hildl'en. The pl'i:lci:_2al hotels of the city, ‘r'ol'nlel'ly amongst the mos’? luxurious in Europe, are now bare. :11n~.os’r wi-‘ll(')ut food 0:‘ lights, and 60121123 dungeons.
“I Sta.y(>d in ‘cue of the best my ten days,” says Sir William, “but itwas like being in Thy cell of a condemned murdcl'cl' \\'ithout hope of 3 I~(‘pl'iove. Fitmlly I ‘was forced to ;‘s'p(2nd £4O buying‘ fuel suffi(-.ic-nf for a Small fire for two. days. Even \\'cH—to- - people Izro burning their furniture for Fuel." _. - -
Tuberculosis is r:lpidl_\' (3xtol'min'.lt< ing the starving Serbinns, especially the cllildl'on, and Central Europe gonerally is on the verge of cl'unlblillg' into clxaos. \'.:*£=l' rolimc Incasllrcs :n'»-.3
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3390, 20 January 1920, Page 7
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165CRUMBLING TO CHAOS. Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3390, 20 January 1920, Page 7
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