ABOUT THE ENEMY.
(By Cable.— Association. —Copyright.) (United Scrvice.) LONDON,. May 21. Mr Sefton Dc-lmer, writing from the Franco-Swiss frontier, {jives a sensational story of famine and cannibalism in Austria. Ho vouches for tho authenticity of hii informant, who said that an issue of the newspaper "Arbeiter Zcitung" was confiscated because it demanded an investigation of two horrible cases of the murder in the Vienna gasworks of prisoners of war by workmen, who ate parts of the bodies. The cases were mentioned in Parliament, but were hushed un. Ono woman, unable to obtain milk, dashed out her baby's brains in the presence of tho Mayor. Soldiers beg for peelings and remnants of food. The most dismaying feature of the situation is that three months of the greatest scarcity are still ahead.
THE POLISH QUESTION. (Renter's TetegTamao (Received May 23rd, 12.50 a.m.) LONDON, May 22. Authoritative Polish quarters affirm that the Central Powers have concluded a reciprocal agreemont for a new solution of the Polish, question.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16219, 23 May 1918, Page 7
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