The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-10-08
OFFICIAL PRESS SEEKS TO
DIVERT PUBLIC ATTENTION
Men all at Front; Women Do Heavy
Lagor - Boycott on Foreign Goods
Suggested - Unemployed Problem
Serious - Food Prices Have Been
Kept Down-No Hostile Demonstra-
tions in Vienna.
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London, Sept PA news letter
received by the Reuter- Telegraph
Company from Venice reads:
According to word received here
from Vienna, the Austrian public is
waiting in dumb patience for some
definite news as to what is really
happening in Galicia and along the
Servian frontier. Although there is
an uneasy feeling that affairs are not
going well for Austria, the mass of the
people still pin their faith to Germany
and are confident that no matter what
happens now, the Germans will even
tually save the situation.
MANY others, however, disgusted
with the ambiguous and scanty re-
ports from official sources, are begin
ming to disregard the newspapers al
together. Ever since it became known
that Russia was making such startling
headway in Galicia the Vienna news
paper comments have been most
guarded. The editorials deal chiefly
with the German campaign in Western
Europe, thus seeking to divert public
attention form the Austrian reverses
at Lemberg and along the Servian
border, but the presence Of 10000 Pol
ish refugees from Galicia, added to
the constant arrival of train loads OF
wounded has considerably discounted
the effects of official reticence.
Sugar Refineries Ruined.
Commerce and industry are para
lyzed throughout the Dual Monarchy
and the stoppage of exports threatens
to ruin some of the largest industries
notably the sugar trade. Millions OF
pounds of sugar are sent annually
from Austria to Great Britain, India
and other points abroad Refiners
are anxiously endeavoring to find
some means of getting their products
to England by indirect route. To re
lieve the stress of the financial situa
tion the government has decided tC
organize a war credit bank capital Of
$1,000,000 besides a number of loan
institutions for advancing money with
out interest in order to carry on vari
Gus industrial enterprises.
Numerous suggestions have beer
made for boycotting goods coming
from hostile countries, notably Eng
land and France, but have met witt
scanty support in the most inhuentia
commercial circles. The Prague
Chamber of Commerce refused to en-
dorse such proposal saying that /
would be quite useless at the presen
moment besides being dangerous fol
Austrian commercial interests late
on.
"The question of the unemployed II
assuming serious proportions especi
ally in Vienna and Budapest. Man!
hundreds have been given work in thu
construction of Notifications alon!
the Danube in the neighborhood o
Vienna and hundreds more have beel
sent from the towns into the countr!
to work in the fields. The Austrian
peasants are displaying great ingenu
ity in exploiting the state. They re
fuse to pay city workers any wage
at all and house and feed them miser
ably. For this they claim from thu
state four shillings for each worke
} per day. The government, however
J declined to yield to such exorbitan
} demands. In Vienna funds are beinl
} raised to feed the unemployed bu
} the demand is constantly increasin
} since, besides the unemployed, tn
, city Is crowded with Galicians.