POVERTY STRICKEN EUROPE.
SEVERE WINTER ADDS TO DISTRESS. DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS IN VIENNA. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. LONDON. Deo. 26. All parts of Europe report the severest winter for years, interrupting transport and intensifying the widespread poverty and depression. There is also a scarcity of fuel. The Sunday Express’ Vienna correspondent states that scurvy, hunger and typhus aro beginning to devastate the population, of which 90 per cent, ate only sour cabbage for Christmas dinner. Seventy-four thousand are unemployed. The street police aro armed with revolvers, and guard every railway waggon to prevent looting. The fashionable quarters swarm with starving, barefooted children, pitiably** begging. Wounded soldiers Ho on_ the pavements, exposing the stumps of limbs suppurating, owing to lack of surgical treatment, while the big hotels are filled -with over fed,! bloated food profiteers, who are responsible for sucking the last drops of Austria’s lifeblood. . ,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1711, 30 December 1919, Page 5
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