Evening star., 1918-06-21
FOOD SHORTAGE
IN 'M|TTEL EUROPA
T|GHTENS GRIP
"Pay 100 Marks for Sick Dog
to Eat," Is Popular
Saying.
AUSTRIAN ANGER GROWS;
10000 GO ON STRIKE
Germany Grudgingly Shares Her
Subsistence With Dis
tressed Ally.

By the Associated Press.
COPENHAGEN, June 21.-The
situation at Prague, Bohemia, and
the Industrial eenters In that dis
trict, says the Meme Freie Presse
Of Vienna, has become 30 serious
that the Austrian eovernment will
either be compelled to increase
the bread ration or run the risk
Of stin further exciting the work.
ing people.
In the latter event, the news-
paper declares, railway connu-
nication would be cut OF and
revolution would break out.
LONDON. June 21.-Food conditions
in Germany are becoming worse.
There is great discomfort owing to
reduction in the bread ration, ac-
cording to a Dutchman interviewed
by the correspondent Of the Times
at The Hague.
The Dutchman had Just returned
from working in the Krupp plant at
Essen, which he left because he could
not stand the food conditions. The
German people. he added, feared to
grumble openly lest they be sent to
the front.
The correspondent says the testi-
mony corroborates what he has heard
from many other witnesses, and adds:
"One popular saying is that the
people will pay 100 marks for a sick
dog to eat.
"The war is becoming unpopular
among the workers. but the feeling
Gibbs and flows with the tide Of Ger
manyss success. Ths English are
generally cursed"
Premier Voices Hungary's Plight.
In many provinces Of Hungary there
is only one-third or one-quarter the
food necessary to maintain the pop
ulation in health, former Premier
Tisza declared in a speech to the Hun
garian parliament yesterday. accord
ing to a Budapest telegram forwarded
by the Exchange Telegraph corre-
spondent at Amsterdam.
Germany must be convinced. added
the former premier. that Hungary's
population was just as badly situated
as regards food supplies as the citi-
xens of Vienna 1t would tax Hun
gary's efforts to the utmost. he as
serted. to hold out until the new
harvest.
Face Actual Famine.
Vienna newspapers are quoting
socialist party manifesto. which de-
clares that workers and small once
holders in Austria are at their wits
end to maintain an existence because
of the food situation in the mon
archy, says a Central News dispatch
from Amsterdam today.
In many Austrian towns. the mani
festo declares, these classes are
threatened with absolute famine.
while similar conditions prevail in
Prague, the Bohemian capital. and in
clared to be terrible at these points.
where the population has not seen
bread or potatoes for weeks.
Resentment in Austria.
LONDON, June 21.-Further infor-
nation confirming reports OF intense
resentment and excitement in Austria
over the reduction of the bread ration
is quoted from Austrian newspapers
by the correspondent Of the Times at
The Hague.
Among the subsidiary causes Of the
anger is the fact that notification OF
the reduction was not made until
noon Monday. although it had been
enforced from early that morning.
when loud and excited protests were
raised.
Premier Seydler is accused by the
socialist Arbeiter Zeitung Of Vienna
Of producing a disastrous situation
ers. 1t says the situation could csr-
tainly have been prevented.
1t adds:
"The Austrian population cannot
starve while Germany and Hungary
have tolerably adequate rations. The
under tutelage even in matters relat-
ing to the food supply. 1t has de-
served to be subject to guardianship.
but the population must not be pun
ished with starvation for the failure
of the government.
Austria's Weekly Ration.
The weekly food ration in Austria,
the Daily Mail correspondent at The
Hague quotes the Arbeiter Zeitung Of
Vienna as reporting. is as follows:
Twenty-Five ounces of bread; one
pound of potatoes of which half can
not be eaten: one ounce of black
bran mash: one ounce of another mill
product; an ounce and a half of fat;
six and one-half ounces of sugar: one
egg; seven ounces of meat and q lit
tie jam and coffee substitutes.
The Vienna newspaper says that the
meat allowance il obtained 'if the ap-
plicant waits all night for it."
10000 Strike in Austria.
LONDON. June 2o.-More than 1oo.-
900 persons have gone on strike in
the Vulcan arsenal and the Warscha-
lowski airplane works, in Vienna, ac-
cording to q dispatch from Zurich to
the Exchange Telegraph. The dis
patch adds that riots have occurred
at Favoriter Margerethen, Ottakring
and Brigittena suburbs OF Vienna
The workmen's council of Vienna
adopted q resolution demanding that
the bread ration be raised Immediate
ly and that until 1t reached normal
size greater quantities of other vic
tuals be given the population, ae-
cording to reports reaching Copen-
hagen and transmitted by the Ex-
change Telegraph Company.
AMSTERDAM, June 21.-Austrian
exchange, which has been declining
daily on the Amsterdam
keurss. dropped another fun pesaf