AUSTRIA.
APPALLING CONDITIONS. GREAT DISTRESS AMONG POOR. New York, Dec. 17. Baskerville, the Vienna correspondent of tho New York World, states that food condtions there are appalling. Vienna needs everything from coal to clothing, and from transports to soap. Everybody but the rich is existing on dry bread, Swedish frozen sauerkraut, and sugar beets. The poor people are trying to exist on lib of potatoes a week and ljlb •of bread. Acorn coffee replaces the real thing, dried oak leaves are sold as a substitute for tobacco, dried hickory and strawberry leaves a3 a substitute for tea. Flour, sold, by profiteers, costs three dollars per pound. The Government allows unemployed workmen one dollar 20 cents (ss) daily. This is not sufficient to buy bread.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1918, Page 5
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124AUSTRIA. Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1918, Page 5
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