Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-06-04
Scenes N vienna
Contrast Between Germany and
Austria Is Marked.
Little War Talk 10 Heard-city Il
Flooded With Jewish Refugees
From eukowita and oaIieia- I
No Fear 81 Famine.

Flooded With Jewish Refugees
From Rukewina and oaIieia-
No Fear 81 Famine.
Wenna.-The-e Is considerable sc
crecy about the military preparation
all around Vienna. Excursions are en-
tirely suspended to the forests and *
the popular Kahlenberg and Leopolds
berg, two hills rising about $500 feet
and sloping down p~,cipitously to thu
Danube. The guns mounted in and
around the old monastery on the sum
nit Of the Leopoldsberg could hur'
down death into the broad valley o.
the Danube and the approaches Of
Vienna. So far they merely frown
The tone here is very unlike the
Berlin note. From optimistic Germany
the transition to an almost phlegmat
ic Austria Is most marked. In Ger.
many some war conversation was al.
ways going on loud enough to be heard
by everybody In the compartment, but
in Austria l travelled at least four
consecutive hours without hearing a
single serious reference to the war.
In Passau. at the frontier, we all
bought Austrian papers. The "Neue
Freie Presse," AusSia's leading jour.
nal, made itself the echo Of little com.
plants about excessive exports of
foodstuhs to Germany. My vis.a.vis,
q lady, assured me that -four was at
Sc hellers, about Is cents, instead Of
46 hellers in peace time.
The other day l was chatting with
a surgeon in the landsturm. He had
been stationed In Moravia in a little
town Of 10000 inhabitants. Many
hundreds Of wounded and sick at.
tended at his hospital, and most pitE
able being the cases of frozen limbs.
Most of our soldiers" said he,
enjoy hard frozen snow. Even u
Vicnrese boys speak we'll Of it. Their
horror is the slush of the Galician
reads. Austrian prisoners sent to
Siberia were insuficiently equipped
10 neat the cold. The mortality among
then is enormous
With him I strolled down the Maria.
hilferst-asse, which the Viennese claim
to be the finest shopping street in the
world. It was sunny, and everything
seemed smiling. Ta,,crc hardly
any mer ahcut. but TIE Viennese
ladies came CIT il great numbers:
Many society recr,e have dismissed
their servants, All t., housewives
shop themselves.
A court eQuipa-e Ta-,:cd. and :
noticed the men tak!1s O. their hats
and some ladies waving their hand
kerchiefs to the occupant. 1t was
Archduke Eugene, perhaps the most
popular prince Of the imperial house,
coming from Schoenbrunn, the emper.
Or's residence.
The best hotels here are filled with
rich Galician landowners and Jewish
manufacturers from Bukowiaa and
Galicia. The minor hotels are crowd
ed with m%iddle-ciass refugees, bat
these latter are Icing drafted into
smaller towns in the other croan
lands.
When l loked down from nay Win
dow on that beautiful Riagssrasse,
the Vienna grand boulevard, I could
hardly believe my eyes. Where in
usual times the smart corso of CEN
trail Europe moves, one long and sad
procession Of POLISH Jewish, and other
refugees passed incessantly. Just un-
der our window we're the most ex.
pensive shops of Vienna, and it was
= strange sight to see Polish Jews
with their long coats and side curls
gazing into the most extravagant art
and florist shops Vienna possesses.
Famine? l do not believe there
will be such a thing. You have read
of riots in the foreign press! Well,
they were scrambles of housewives in
front of two or three bakers shops.
The pinch is undoubtedly felt in the
lower middle class, the professional
class. We viennese are not a saving
people, and love our amusements and
our fine pastry. When the latter
came to be scarce terrible stories
were circulated by the viennese con-
cierge and our housewives got a bit
nervous. They are calming down now
and recovering their humor."
As to feeling in general, find there
Is no great ill-will towards England,
and none towards France.
Our war is with Russia, not with
France or England" they say.