CANNIBALISM IN VIENNA.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15531, 19 June 1918, Page 6

CANNIBALISM IN VIENNA.

STAEK MEDIAEVAL FAMINE CONFEONTS TEUTONCJ FEOPLES. LONDON, May 21. Camel meat, dog meat and horse meat are Using eaten in .Saxony by the poorer clauses, according to tile lierliner lat?e--blatt. S ilie camel meat comes from the Mohair camels of the Hagen back menagerie, which gave a show in Zwickau in March. The camels were sold to a butcher because of lack of fodder. ±Jog meat sells for 2 marks 75 pfennigs a pound, and horse meat at 1 mark 80 pfennings. “I feel confident that the time is at hand when famine stark mediaeval famine—will join the Entente as a political and military ally against Germany and Austria,” the correspondent of the Daily Mail telegraphs from Annemasse, in France, nca rthe Swiss border. The correspondent says he draws his conclucion from oral statements by an authentic witness, whose observations extended up to the end of April. The great masses of the German and Austrian peoples, this informant declares, are more than sick of the war. They think and talk of nothing hut bread, and their moral is so low that the Governments are fearful of Bolsheviki movements. Among the incidents given in support of the story of terrible want is the case of two prisoners of war employed at the gas works in Vienna, who, he declared, were murdered by fellow-workers, who ate part of the bodies. All washable tablecloths and napkins remainin gunsold in the shops thronghout Germany have been commandeered by the Imperial clothing office, according to German papers, in order to replenish the army’s impoverished supply of material for bandages, bedding and other hospital requirements, which have become increasingly urgent as a result of the heavy casualties.