CRUMBLING TO CHAOS.
STARVING CENTRAL EUROPE. London, Dec. !>. > Sir William Goode, Director of Relief | Measures, gives a terrible picture of i winter privations in Central Europe. Summarising the results of his latest inquiries, he states that he found one of the main streets of Vienna blocked daily with hearses, nine-tenths of them carrying the bodies of children. The principal hotels of the city, formerly among the most luxurious in Rurope, are now bare, almost without food or. lights, and cold as dungeons. '•] stayed in one of the best for ten days," says Sir William, "but it was like being in'the cell of n condemned murderer without hope of a reprieve. Finally 1 was forced to spend .-£4O Inlying fuel sufficient for a small fire for two days." Even the well-to-do people arc burning their furniture for fuel. Tuberculosis is rapidly exterminating the starving Servians, especially the children, and Central Europe generally is on the verge of crumbling into chaos. Vast relief measures are most urgent.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 December 1919, Page 3
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165CRUMBLING TO CHAOS. Taranaki Daily News, 30 December 1919, Page 3
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