STARVING EUROPE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1710, 10 January 1920, Page 6

STARVING EUROPE.

TERRIBLE CONDITIONS. LONDON, Dec. 27. Tho following are extracts from to-day’s wires from countries suffering in parts from actual starvation i A message from Vienna states that a train from Innsbruck scheduled to take 16 hours for a journey of 169 miles, with uuv/armed corridors, was crammed with passengers 90 minutes before 'starting. Along the dreary, snow-covered roads, on which are ranged half-starved peasants, families moved like ghosts, lacking even boots. A crowd of gaunt people invaded the station in the hope of getting odd' jobs, with black rings under their byes, showing prolonged malnutrition. Funerals of children bn some days dog the streets of Berlin, and the death rales, in the cities are flic highest recorded. i The Times’ correspondent at Paris sags that France is in the direst straits. The I coal grates are empty, industries and rail [ ways are slowed down, while the street ; lights are subdued, and tho automatic docks have stopped. • ' i At , Constantinople tho Greek Church i has appealed for funds to assist hundreds ' of destitute people dying from starvation and disease. Tho churches in Britain, headed by Ihe Archbishop of Canterbury, are devoting Christmas collections to save the children of enemy countries. The Pope has , made a widespread appeal.