GENERAL NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12090, 26 June 1920, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

FRUGAL PRESIDENT. Paris, April 16 President Desclu uel, on his recent visit to the Riviera, began a campaign of economy in eating and drinking. He insisted that menus should be submitted to him previously, and. he ruthlessly excised at half the . dishes. Champagne and spirits were banished from his table. TRAGIC ODYSSEY Vienna, April 7 Two hundred and four Austrian prisoners of war arrived here to-day from Moscow after a journey lasting three months. The original party numbered nearly eight hundred, bat in the coarse of their terrible journey sis hundred died from illness or were beaten to death or otherwise killed on the way. At the Polish border, the survivors saj', a regular massacre took place, and only those who had money were able in some cases to purchase their lives. The rest were hunted down like a pack of starving dogs. Most of those who reached Vienna were so weak that they had to be removed in ambulances.