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Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1916, Page 5

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UNHAPPY SERBIA. J ! FAMINE AND DISEASE RAMPANT. Received June 10, 9 p.m. • Paris, June 19. Advifces received of the internal conditions Serbia show that there is a terrible 'limine, and disease is rife. Thousands of women await bread that is brought bjf boats from Scmlin, but the Austrians purchase the cargoes and resell the btead at a hundred per cent, profit. Cholera and diphtheria are raging at Belgrade, and- the dead are buried in kuge trenches. BRfiBK GOVERNMENT "UNYIELDING. 1 Received June 19, 9 p.m. I London, June 19. The Daily, Mail's Athens correspondent, Mr. Rallis. states that the Government is strong in the King's and the Chamber's confidence, and has no intention of yielding to the Allies' pressure. " GREEKS AND BULGARIANS MEET. Athens, June 18. Greek and Bulgarian detachments had several hours' fighting near Seres, but the result is unknown. ' £osstanWnopLe starving. 50 DEATHS DAILY. Salonika, March 31. The London Times' correspondent at Salohika says:—l have been shown a letter which seems to have escaped the notice of the Turkish censor, dated March 5, from a member of a lately well-,tO-do family in Constantinople, iri Which'the writer states that "for weeks past our diet has consisted of little else than plain-boiled haricots, with a meagre ration of the coarsest bread. ' Meat is so dear as to be quite beyond our Cleans. It is estimated that there Ore at least 50 deaths Trom starvation daily in Constantinople. The sight of famished persons dropping down from exhaustion in the streets is now quite commoni"