AUSTRIA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16617, 15 December 1919, Page 3

AUSTRIA.

PROBLEMS OF RECONSTRUCTION. Bv Telegraph —Press Assn.—Copyright. RAH IS, Dec. Li. The Chancellor, Dr. Renner, and a party of business experts, are in Pans, seeking to raise cap ta' to re-tart Austrian industries by the sale ol the Dattnhiiin Heel, and the Austrian State railways for a. sum of £ i .WK'MWKI.OOO. They jHiint out that Austria has vast resources of iron ore in the Duchy ot Styriu, where there are also clever workmen and intact factories. There are al.-o excellent markets in Hungary ami Jngo-Slavia, but it is impossible to develop the re-ourees owing to lark of capital to work the raw material.—Aus.N.Z. Cable As.-n. A PATHETIC APPEAL. fßeceived Doc. 15, 11.15 a.m.) PARIS. Dec. 12. Dr. Renner, Austrian Premier, interviewed, pictures rho latest aspects of moneyless and foodlc&s Austria. Ho asked; How - can the western Christian world celebrate Christmas while faced at its doorstop by six millions of people dying of hunger 'i Tho problem has nothing to do with economics or politics; it is a question of humanity. Wholesale plundering has begun in tho Tyro!, and tho crimes are so pathetic that tiie courts refuse to convict, -If the Allies do not provide food credits not later than January the whole country will collapse into anarchy, not based' on any political creed, ceytamly not on tho Bolshevik creed, but from the sheer animal craving for something to cat.” As an example of the state of starvation Dr. Renner quoted the results of the customary weighing of school children aged 10 to 12 years. - Tho weights average two-thirds below tho war figures.—Times.