AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 June 1918, Page 6

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

STARVATION RATIONS AUSTRIANS' PLIGHT. Washington, June 21. Advices from Zurich report that the Austrian Government has reduced the daily ration of bread to 90 grammes (one-fifth of a lb.). The Food Minister explained that the action "was unavoidable,* because supplies were practically exhausted, except Bessarabia, where only the most scanty amount was available.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. Copenhagen, June 21. Count Tisza, in the Hungarian liament, denied the accusations Hungary was selfishly stocking food. He declared that many provinces had only one fourth of the food necessary to maintain health. Germany must be convinced that Hungary's plight is as bad as that of tho Austrians.—Press Association. SERIOUS STRIKES IN AUSTRIA. FOOD RIOTS AT VIENNA. Zurich, June 21. The strike situation is serious at Prague, Brunn and throughout Galicia and Bohemia. There were food riots in Vienna and many shops were pillaged. Fifty thousand rioters marched in procession through the streets demanding' peace and bread. The police dispersed them. -~Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. ANOTHER DESERTING PLANE. Copenhagen, Jane 81. Another deserting German aeroplane landed in Holland. The aviators say they deserted out of syrftpathy with' Professor Nicholav, who was one of the crew of a previous deserting aeroplane. Nicholav wrote a book entitled "Psychology of the War," with a strong pacifist tendency, and was sentenced to four months' imprisonment.—Association. j ]