VIENNA’S PLIGHT
PEOPLE FIGHT FOR BREAD (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, Mar. 23. Sixty or 70 per cent of Vienna’s factory district is in ruins or severely damaged, and all railway stations are practically useless as the result of bombing, according to a Swiss who has just returned from Vienna and is quoted by the Daily Telegraph’s Zurich correspondent. Suburban stations are the termini for all trains arriving at Vienna, and long-distance trains from Vienna, if run at all, start from Wiener Neustadt, 30 miles south of Vienna.
An acule shortage of drinking water, no gas, little electricity, and a catastrophic bread situation is the background of Vienna’s life. Inhabitants queue for hours for a few ounces of bread, and even break into fist-fights for it. In spite of warnings, Danube water is being used for drinking, although there is insufficient fuel to boil is before drinking.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25803, 26 March 1945, Page 6
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