AUSTRIAN DISCONTENT.
POPULATION STARVING
| LONDON. May 3. [ Czecho Slovak troops, who are AusI trian subjects, have appeared, according to ! Italian papers, on the Italian front, fighting for Italy. Their arrival has disquieted the Austro-Hungarian commanders, who fear the effect on the Slav troops. Recently some of these men persuaded a number of Austrian Czechs to desert, which an Italian barrage between the Austrian front and support lines enabled them to do.
A special English correspondent, on the I Swiss frontier has received information I showing that the population of Austria and Hungary are starving and seething with revolt. He predicts that these people will break out when the western offensive is brought to a standstill.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16849, 14 May 1918, Page 5
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