AUSTRIA'S TERRIBLE PLIGHT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10111, 19 October 1917, Page 5

AUSTRIA'S TERRIBLE PLIGHT.

TUBERCULOSIS ATTACKS 63 PER CENT. OF AUSTRIAN ARMY. FOOD RIOTS AT'PILSEN. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association (Reuler's Telegram.) Received October 19, 11.40 a.m. BERNE, Oct. 18. Vienna messages states that tuberculosis in the Austrian army afl'ected sixty-three per cent of the men during the half of 1916. as compared with twelve- per cent for the first half of 1915. An interpellation in the Reichsrath re vealed the fact that serious food riots oc curred in Pilsen in August. Seventy shops wero plundered. Tin troops fired, killing and wounding several persons. Martial law was proclaimed. MARTIAL LAW REVOKED. Received October 19. 11.40 a.tn MADRID, Oct. 18. Martial law having been revoked, tin Minister of War has resigned. General Marina has been appointed as his successor. ROUMANIAN PRISONERS STARVED TO DEATH. Au»tralian-New Zealand PaMp LONDON, Oct. 18. A correspondent at. Roumanian Headquarters reports that as a result of German brutality, sixteen thousand Roumanian prisoners died, mostly of starvation. MEMORIAL PLAQUES. LONDON. Oct. 18. The Press Bureau says: The competition for designs for a memorial plaque for the next-of-kin of the killed close at the, end of 1917, to enable members of the forces serving overseas, and artists resident in the Dominions, to participate.