HUNGARY MARRIAGE BOOM.
CURIOUS FEATURE OF FAMINE. Reports from Budapest, published m th c Berliner Tageblat, speak m the most pessimistic terms of' the distress and famine raging m, Hungary. It is declared that the country population is cut off from the capit.'d'an.d' ' ts supplies, with the result that soareely j*ny food is obtainable. The rationing system is a mere farce, and huge prices are given for foodstuffs secretly sold. A curiouß feature of the situation is jrtiat there has been a remarkable boom In marriages during the spring, some 10,000^ couples having been marred — four times as many as during the eorre- f sponding months 'of, last year. , j
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14986, 13 August 1919, Page 3
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110HUNGARY MARRIAGE BOOM. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14986, 13 August 1919, Page 3
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