WIDESPREAD HUNGER.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 January 1920, Page 5

WIDESPREAD HUNGER.

THE NEEDS OF EUROPE. PITIABLE PLIGHT OF VIENNA. London, Dec. 28. The correspondent of the Sunday Ek> pre=s at Vienna states that scurvy and hunger-typhus are beginning to devastate the population, of whom BO per cent, ate only sour cabbage for Christ* inas. Unemployed to the number of 74,000 tramp the streets, and police armed with revolvers guard every railway vragaon to prevent looting. The fashionable quarter swarms with starving end barefooted children pitiably begging, while wounded soldiers lie on the pavement* exposing the stumps of their llmh*,' which are suppurating owing lo lackof surgical treatment. Meanwhile ibe big hotels are filled with over-fed and bloated food profiteersresponsible, for the sucking of the last drops of Austria's lifehlood. A message from Vienna states that «. train from Innsbruck scheduled to take IC hours for a journey of ICO miles, with unwarned corridors, was crammed with' passengers (H) minuted before startingAlong the dreary, snow-covered roads, <ra' which are ranged half-starved peasant*, families moved like ghosts, lack.nj event boots.

A crowd of gnmit people inviulfd tho ! station in the hope of getting odd jobis, j ivith black rings under their eyes, nhO>Y»g in« prolonged malnutrition. Funeralsf| of children on some d-ays clop t.re street*.! m Berlin, and the_death ratts in the 1 I'itics are the highest recorded. I The correspondent of the Times at ] Paris says that France is in the direftt'l utrnits. The coal prates are empty, dnstries and railways arc slowed while Ihe street lights arc subdued,! and the automatic clocks have stopped,*:] At Constantinople, the Greet Chnrch*] has appealed for funds to wist Jiuß-| dreds of destitute people dying frotJH starvation and disease The churches - ! in Britain, headed by the Archbishop all Canterbury, are devoting Christmas eql- I lections to save tho children of enemy ] counjries. Thei Popo has made •] widespread appeal 3