TRAGIC CONDITIONS IN TRIESTE.
A STURDY MANIFESTO.
WITH A GRIM WARNING.
Router's Telegrams. ROME, May 15. (Received May 16, at 8.30 p.m.) . 1 gravity of the internal conditions ill Austria is illustrated by a meeting of representatives of all classes at Trieste demanding succour. Ihe notice calling the gathering stated tliat Trieste was without reserve resources, and added: "Wo refuse to die of starvation. Even people who were rich before the war now live bv begging public charity. Malnutrition and hunger prevent workers from doing' their daily task, and the statistics of sick and dead are terrifying. The city declines to become a cemetery. If the Government will not provide for the inhabitants they will not die of starvation, but will prefer any other death."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17317, 17 May 1918, Page 5
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