Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-26

old. 1870 kilogrammes (15 IA pounds
children who have mothers milk
look we'll but very few women can
nurse their children because of the
terrible undernOurishment The hos
pital pays ten crowns to a woman for
each liter of her milk which she gives
to a child not her own,
AT the White Cross hospital the
same condition prevails. There is no
linen. so that half the hospital cannot
be used Almost no milk no band
ages or dressings; no chloroform or
ether. and operations must be per-
formed without anesthesia. Paper is
used instead of linen.
"A telegram from the Hungarian
Red Cross states that in the State
Babies dispensary at Budapest, which
has a capacity for 5000 babies, Sl2
babies died in January out of 1000;
February, 966 out of 1000; March,
7S5 out of COO; April, SIT; May, 561;
June, 6S5. These figures illustrate the
emergency and the horror perhaps
better than anything else could. The
figures are accurate
Another view of the situation and
its accompanying frightfulness ap-
pears in an article printed by the
Manchester Guardian, from its own
correspondent. and which has found
its way here. 1t says in part;
IN peace time, with a population of
100000, Budapest was crowded, ana
the following abridged table, taken
from 1911 statistics, gives some idea
Of the conditions:
"Out of a population of 800, 900. 49,
600 inhabited the same room with at
least ten others; 10000 inhabited the
same room with at least seven others;
290, 600 inhabited the same room with
at least five others, and there was IN
addition a floating homeless popula-
tan, sleeping where it could, OF 49,
60O."
This was in pre-war times. The sit
nation in 1919, with the huge addltloh-
al problem of munition workers ana
The demobilized army, is beyond de-
scription, the munition workers alone
coming to so per cent of the former
population of the city. This must have
been unparalleled in Europe. And, or
course, with the conn nunist regime
the proletariat natura lily chose the
best for himself to malte up for what
he had suffered in the past.
Hungary was ruled by an ollgarchy
whose tyranny toward the, masses
was, not even except ng Russia, the
foulest sore on the BODY polltlc oil
Europe. The workingman was dis
franchised and practically helpless
despite the fact that, unlike the Rus
sian peasant, he was educated and
politically alive to his own wrongs
and the great working class move
ments in all the other great countries
around him.
"He was condemned to life of
slavery and squaior amid an enViron-
ment of luxury ard refinement I'M
surpassed in any other city. There
vas bound to be q reaction OF eN-
plosiye force when the containing
social structure gave way under tae
stress of military defeat. Oppres
sion had its nemesis. The ruling class
CT Hungary has Leen paying and 1t
still has to paw
Mrs. Snowden's Appeal.
One of the few friends of Hungary
is Mrs Philip SnoWden, the well
known British radical. To Hungarian
exiles here has come her message.
at is nine months since the armis-
tice was signed" wrote Mrs Snow
den in the Labor Leader, and yet NJ
! attempt has been made by the So
preme council to make peace witt
| Hungary. The blockade has beei
maintained with uneXampled rigol
and the people have been reduced to
state of INDISPENSABLE starvation. II
this condition of helplessness the
! Hungarian government has been com
PEELED, at the bidding Of the supreme
| council Of the allies to resign, and II
desperation government has beer
formed which will be more amenable
Mrs. Snowden wrote two months
ago
1.-THE proposals made by the allied