El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-05
AUSTRIAN PEOPLE. WEAKENING.
MAKE DEMAND FOR WARS END
Inhabitants Would Revolt, Except That Weak and
Aged Unarmed, Are Not Able to Fight; Food Con
ditions Gould Not Be Worse; Women Pawn Their
Clothing For Food Rejoicing at German Defeat
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Says the burgomaster Of InnsbrucJ,
Food conditions at Innsbruck. cou1f
hardly be worse. The flour for
months has consisted almost excIu.
lively Of maize, which has also beer
lacking for the past four weeks
mere are days when we have had M
bread at all The supply OF pofatoes
IS pltifuL The hospital, with hun
Qreds OF patients, was without eggs
for weeks at a time"
Women Pawn Clothes for Food.
says the burgomaster Of Bohemia oh
Public opinion IS getting excited. be-
cause nearby in Czech Bohemia peo-
pie are living as in peace time. where
as here many German mothers are
obliged 10 pawn their clothes to get
food On the other side Of the from
tier. the Germans at least divide their
food reasonably No wonder our peo-
pie desire union with the German en-
pire during the war and transition
period"
Says the burgomaster OF Aussig:
For the past few months conditions
could hardly have been worse. The
government must know We cannot
hold out until the next harvest with
the present food supply.
Only Vegetables Plentiful.
The general impression OF food con-
ditions in Austria Hungary, as re-
ported by competent observers during
the past few weeks, was summed up
as follows by an authority here who
has access TO all the confidential data
on the subject: Bread in Vienna isl
bad, but at least obtainable; in Bohe-
mia, and especially in Prague. It is
equally bad, and often absent alto
nrnHhnw 1ThawG Hrm-a-ea ~ "a
meat ration, about two ounces q
week. excepting for one tremendous
week, when owing TO the scarcity OF
other fOodstuffs, an extra three and
half ounces were allowed TO each
person This forced concession was
naturally regarded as the beginning
OF new era and disappointment was
severe when the old rate was reestab-
1ished.
Milk is scarcer in Vienna than ever
before, the daily delivery being less
than one-eighth those Of normal
times In many parts Of the city. I
about the middle OF the last month. I
children between two and six years
of age obtained no milk at all Only (
vegetables are really plentiful
To the usual early optimism about
the yearly harvest has succeeded pes /
simism- Heat and drouth in Austria .
during the sumner harmed barley, I
oats and rye and the prospects for
green fodder are very poor. Wheat, !
however, was thought to be as good as
last year. even in Aoravia and Silesia,
where the drOuth was worse Rain
fell at the end Of last month, so con-
ditions may have improved Hunga-
rian harvest reports are less favOra-
Die than they were month ago.
Famine in Eggs.
The egg famine, being entirely IN
expected, was ths most Disappointing
feature OF the food supply this sum
mer In Vienna In the month OF Nay,
Dnly 100000 eggs were received in
the capital. as against 100000 eggs
delivered in Nay, 1917.
With the food situation what II
"a, and the military still too strong
for armed attempts at revolution
10 succeed. the despair and dis
content Of the people seeks TO vent
itself in strikes. Latest cOn6den-
ffnI REPORTS from both Austria
and Hungary indicate that these
are taking place in far greater
number than the enemy press
admits. First riOfinE and then Z
strikes resulted in Vienna itself Z
as a result Of the reduction OF the +
bread ration. In
A mob sacked several bakeries and Z
toned the house q the prime minis y
EAa N0AA 1E-A-IAu e---A a " AA-E7 "a -
4ofburg palace; news Of the troubles s
n the capital spread rapidly through 4
he provinces. and sympathetic demon :
trations which ny informants call :
outbreaks took place within the 2
lext few days in Prague, Graz and 7
.aihach. Troops were used a few e
avs later TO disperse q mob in Vienna \
marching with banners to attack the =
serman embassy, and crying, Ger r
many is starving u.s." e
Demands for Food =
These troubles. beginning at the end -
Z June and lasting into July and Up -,