PLIGHT OF BUDA PESTH.
ON VERGE OF STARVATION. PEOPLE EAT DOGS. LONDON, Sept. 8. Renter's correspondent at Buda-Pesth, in a message dated September 5, stated : " The city is on the verge of famine, having only 12 days' supply of fats, 11 days' supply of flour and corn, two days' supply of meat, four days' supply of coal, aniS practically no milk. The mortality of infants is 50 per cent. The municipal storehouses are empty, and there is not mi egg in any of them, compared with 12,000,000 ii. normal times. Six hundred tons of provisions are arriving daily instead of th» customary 3000 tons. Vegetables are th» chief diet, and dogs have been eaten recently.'-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17271, 22 September 1919, Page 7
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116PLIGHT OF BUDA PESTH. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17271, 22 September 1919, Page 7
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