Dying of Hunger.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 24, 15 December 1919, Page 5

Dying of Hunger.

SiaUV UO-i AH’Y

AUSTRIANS IN DESPAIR.

APPEAL TO WESTERN CHRIS-

TIANS.

Press Association—Copyright Published in “Tin* Tune* ” (Received 11.15 a.pif), Paris, December j-12

■W; Renner. (Austrian Chancellor), in an interview, pictures the latest aspects of -moneyless and foodlir-s Austria. 'He asked “How can the western Christian ‘ world celebrate Christmas while faced at its doorstep by six million, people dying of hunger. The problem has nothing to do with economics or politics; it is a question of humanity. Wholesale plundering has begun in the Tyrol. The crimes are so pathetic that the Courts refuse to convict. If the Allies do not provide food credits, not later than January, the whole country will collapse into anarchy, hot based on any political creed, certainly not Bolshevik, but sheer anarchism craving for something to eat/.’ 5 As one example of the country’s ■ slate of starvation, Dr. Renner quoted resiilts of the customary weighing of school children aged ten to twelveyears showing that weights average two-thirds below the war figures.