GREAT DISTRESS IN AUSTRIA
SERIOUS SHORTAGE OF FOOD. (Received October 18, 8 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, 16th October. There is great distress in Austria. The Burgomaster of Munich appeals to the citizens to Take only four meat meals a week, owing to the diminishing number of pigs and cattle and the heavy demands of the army. N'otwjth&t.andinH the asturancea of the
Government as to the volume of the harvest, bread cards will be more ! 6trictly enforced. The Austro-Hungarian potato crop is insufficient. Prohibitive prices are current in the restaurants. The taliors and. dressmakers in Vienna have been' ruined, owing to the diversion of cloth to military use.
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 93, 18 October 1915, Page 7
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