THE CENTRAL POWERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17322, 23 May 1918, Page 5

THE CENTRAL POWERS

FAMINE IN AUSTRIA. A TERRIBLE STORY. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, May 21. Professor F. Sefton Delmer (who was professor of English in a German university when the war broke out), writing from the Franco-Swise frontier, gives a sensational story of famine and cannibalism in Austria, He vouches for the authenticity of his informant, who said that the issue of a newspaper, the Vienna Arbiter Zeitung, was confiscated because it demanded an investigation into two horrible cases of the murder of prisoners of war by workmen in the Vienna gasworks who ate parts of the bodies. The cases were mentioned in Parliament, but were hushed up. One woman, unable to obtain milk, dashed out her baby's brains in the presence of the Mayor. Soldiers beg for peelings and remnants of food. The most dismaying feature of the situation is that three months of the greatest scarcity are still ahead. TROUBLE IN BOHEMIA. YOUNG SLAVS WARNED FROM PRAGUE. AMSTERDAM. May 21. An official proclamation at Prague states that events in the nature of high treason at the jubilee celebrations in the Bohemian National Theatre necessitate strong measures; therefore public meetings and demonstrations and tho wearing of enemy colours are prohibited. Young Slavs are ordered to leave Prague.