FAMINE IN VIENNA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 16303, 2 December 1918, Page 3

FAMINE IN VIENNA.

THOUSANDS NEARLY STARVING

PROPOSED TRIAL OP WARMAKERS.

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright

LONDON, Nov. 29

Tie Daily Express correspondent in Vienna gives a grim account of 60,(100 human wrecks with bones protruding through their skin, haunting the public soup kitchens and getting a litre of soup daily, made of rotten cabbages and flour, boiled in washing tubs. Hundreds die daily and are buried in paper coffins.

The whole of Germany and Austria is afraid of Bolshevism. The people are buying rifles and machine-guns. The officials angrily complain that Hungary refuses to give food to Aus-tria.—Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 29.

Official advices from Vienna state that the Government intends to bring all persons responsible for the war to trial, including Counts Berchtold, Czernin, Muuke, and other Ministers, Ambassadors, and War Office functionaries, also the ex-Eraperor and Grand Dukes Freidrich, Eugen, Peter, and Ferdinand. !

The last Thuringain sovereign prince, Johanno of Schwarzburg, has abdicated.

Austro-Hungarian casualties to the end of May were four millions killed, wounded and sick, 800,000 being kdled, including 17,000 officers. The casual-’ ties in the last Italian offensive are not included.—Aus. Cable Assn.

JEWS AT LEMBERG ATTACKED

LONDON, Nov. 29,

Berlin advices state that 1100 Jews were murdered at Lemberg when the fanatical crowd set fire to the Synagogue in which hundreds of people were barricaded, and were shot as they emerged from the windows.—Times Service.

COPENHAGEN, Nov. 28

A pogrom is reported at Lemberg, the Jewish quarter having been fired, including the Synagogue. Hundreds of men, women aud children were killed, their bodies being thrown from the windows into the streets.—Aus. Cable Assn.

FIGHTING IN CROATIA

AMSTERDAM, Nov. 29.

Fighting at A gram between the Republicans and Monarchists continues. A military revolt is in progress at Bobricszia. where the soldiers' are illtreating the officers and shooting indiscriminately in the streets.—Aus. Cable Assn.

ADVANCE OF ROUMANIANS

COPENHAGEN, Nov. 28.

There is considerable excitement at Budapest owing to the advance of the Roumanian armies into Transylvania. It is expected they will occupy a great part of Hungary.—Aus.-N.Z. ’ Cable Assn.