AUSTRO-GERMANY.
ACUTE DISTRESS IN AUSTRIA. HUNGARY IN SIMILAR PLIGHT, Received Ja.n. 21, 5.5 p.m. London, Jan. 19. In connection with the Austro-Gorman Food Conferences, details available, in London 'how Lliat In Austria distress is most acute, the potato famine ?ieing especially severe. Vienna lnul been jironiised 253 truck loads daily in Novemliei and December, lint lnul only {rot an average of !).'>. Since Tin istnuts there had heen a iurthei diniimition of supplier, unci the prices of the principal foodslnil's iire priuticalh prohibitive. Most, pcopli consider that the position in Hungary is scarcely belter. The pro-fcs.-oriiil elapses are bitterly crying out, and the clergy at Budapest declared to (he new .-.pa pel Azup.ag that" tliev a,re liable to teed an,, clothe tfie children, while widows exist in the lowest stage of misery. The Axujsag's iiH|iiinos in other directions reveal the same distress, notably anion,!' teacher* and civil servants, .while even lodges are resorting to trades to eke out their resources.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 January 1917, Page 5
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159AUSTRO-GERMANY. Taranaki Daily News, 22 January 1917, Page 5
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