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THE WOES OF AUSTRIA.

A GLOOMY PICTURE.

MUTUAL RECRIMINATIONS. What is the rosult Austria, particu larly in the large towns, is suffering from an acute shortage of all manner of cat

Bread, meat, butter, cheese, oven horse-flesh, fetch fabulous prices, and then

A special correspondent writes to the ables

NOW OR NEVER.

WE MUST GROW MORE FOOD.

[DY JAMES LONG.]

ON DOING WITHOUT.

BY THORPE LER]

The packet which I was buying, wa wrapped in paper already, but the shop.

If the war is to be won it will be won assistant insisted upon putting another Daily Telegraph under date of January they can be obtained only in very small

piece round it. I said, Don't bother."" 20th-If the war has smitten Germany quantities. The poorer classes auffer ter-

He replied firmly, It's no trouble, sir,” with whips it has smitten Austria-Hun-ribly, mortality among children in towns on our food supply.

It is not so bad in the ERAS very high,

Contributions in men, munitions,, and and took no heed, gary with scorpions. The German people country. The farmer, regulation or no

AI

my pocket himself provides

put my purchase in with the corn money-all of which are forthcoming--aute

*How regulation,

walked out of the shop I at any rate, are allowed to give expire he requires. At the best of times the worthless without food. The country can-

UNECOCEBATY Paper is getting scarcel dion to their feelings, and it is obvious Austrians did not pay too much need to not be starved, but we were long going and will

In war time that they are dead sick of the whole busi- the letter of the law,

they conduct, however, has given rise to much

день

יגי

thought,

and ph

And then 1. reflected that this little incident was like an allegory Have an menus of ventilating their griev-ill-feeling between the agricultural and indictment could be framed against the illustrating all the waste and all the on to us like barancks formed by custom auces or their views, for the Press censor the other sections of the population. The late Government than that they failed to fruitless formalities which have grown and social tradition-barnacles which are ship in the Dun! Monarchy is the strictest letter accuse the former of enriching tako proper precautions.

themselves by trading on the wants di We are within a few weeks of the best being scraped off us by the hard

experi~ Day after their fellow citizens. nnd of neglecting and only time for sowing corn and plan end and stupidest in the world.

ence of war any the Austro-Hungarian papers appear their duty to their fatherland by not suling our national crops. As I have already This is a time when everyone of us must

scribing to the war loans.

the time is tựu short to permit

mode life. Have the courage to do of frost is proving this to be

this and you will find that in numberless white define pois, det to of damages found in the end of the e lentless hand of the censor. An Austrian The country people prefer to hard their severe

gold rather than invest it in the war loan, true. cultivation of all available weekly devoted to finance and trace actual striking illustration or the point is the and suitable land should be compulscry ways you can save and simplify, and, na a result, make yourself not only more use- ly appeared with blank pages, all except case of a farmer in Carinthia, who paid especially that near the towns. The great fal but lighter-hearted as well. There are the last three. In these circumstances is the purchase price of a small estate (£875) mies of the people have never realised the

in silver coins, becomes more dificult to obtain reliable"

The Austrisus. and Hangariaus disregard it altogether, The farmers the right way to starve it, and no greater waste Probably be much scarcer Why

This last

fact

semi-starvation

about its senior partner. What how ever, does appear shows that the horizon the war Austrin depended for much of a shortage which will banish meat from dignity From contact with a naked article.

So much wastage of all

and that continu-Buch unthinking tribute is paid to thoss absurd deities Dignity and Deference (for information about Austria-Hungary than is paralleled by the bitterness between 15 German successes under the sea must the shop his deference and to save my

The bitterness between town and count that they are within measurable, dis many unnecessary wrappings i

assistant's unconscious motive Even before mean a shortage of food, in the future was to show Austrians and Hungarians.

commerce). her grain and ment supplies on Hungary. their tables and make an adequate ration Now Hungary will not allow the export of wheat bread impossible.

Let as look at seane facts. We depend kinds, so much, in our lives that we could

quite well do without. of her produce, not oven to the sister

upon our imperts five we consume.

for four pounds of I hear politicians of antiquated intel State Hungarian farmers who used to

In ligence, old Whigs they really are, cono- out of every supply pigs to the Vienna market round figures, one-half our meat supply plaining that we have sacrificed parlia their animals at home, and Vienna is pig- comes from abroad. In 1014 the butter

I lo not agree; mentary government. There is

is some justification for the imported reached 2,884,000ew, whereas but even if we had, what would that policy of

as last year's harvest

gloomy.

A REIGN OF TERKOR.

loss.

bread out of

"

the

I want to

in the Dual Monarchy is black and One or two outstanding facts are very significant. Austria has a Parliament, init its legislatore bave not met ever since war broke out. Government in Austria is by administrative orders. Even the

val forced upon the people. A was divingly pour. Count Tisza, in 1916 this figure was reduced to 2,178,000-matter if we found speedier, surer

manufactured get fixed without any consultation or vote quite plataly that the harvest had been ers and factories, based upon the last not created in order to be fitted into

official estimate (1908), was $10,000est, of the two Houses of Parliament. There A failure. I feel it to be my duty" he

trument which had grown up among us is good reason for not calling the Houses said. " to oxpress myself quite shortly on but the amount is now very much less. perticular system of parliamentary gav together. Even before, the war the Aus the question whether, in face of the un- Thus we imported under normal condi- and which for two years and a half acaris trian Lower House presented a picture doubtedly unfavourable results of the tions 75 per cent of what we consumed.

de without this particular system if it of a Parliamentary pandemonium. There burvest, we can be confident that the food Our cheese imports in 1918 en gave such disastrous results. We could are so many conflicting races in the Ein- supply of the public is secured until the 2,604,000cwt., whereas that produced by seemed desirable: the world would not pire each hating the others with a cruel next lurvest. The position is difficult. British farmers was only 500.000cwb.. or cease to ture.

Vegetable

DEATHBLOW OF 26 INSTITUTIONS. hatred

and is produced entirely, Parliamentary obstruction The quantity of bread grain at our dis-one-fifth of our requirements,

I do not know how far you will agree. came a fine art in Vicuna, and if condi- posl does not cover the normal consump-margarine

The result can be imagined. animal margarino almost entirely, from with me, but I will make bold to rumit. tions were intolerable; before the war, it was only to be expected that feeling would Nevertheless the Austrians charge the imported materials, whereas we imported that I hope the war will in many direc run even higher in a time of crisis like Hungarians with not playing the game in the past year 21 million est.,, or 308 tious make a complete break between what. the present. The experience of Budapest The Hungarians retaliate by asserting million pounds. We may therefore re-came before and what will come ofter. was illuminating on this point. Hungary that the Hungarian soldiers are as a rule gard this food as essentially dependent hope it has given the deathblow to many of our institutions." I hope there will has been allowed Parliamentary Govern- placed in the most dangerous positions, upon shipping

RESULTS OF NO IMPORTS,

never be any more Derbies, any more. ment, but the recriminations of the Oppo-while their Austrian comrades take refuge What remains to us if we become entire Henley, any more Ascot. I wish to good- sition became su bitter at times the the in the rea7.

ly dependent upon our own produce? nes the Drury Lane pantomime would business of the House had to be suspend-

CLOTHES AND CAPES...

(1.)-Less than 402, of wheat bread intake the hint and disappear. ed. The seriousness of the war could not

pound, unless we employ the start again. stead of

I want to live in a com- prevent the usual duels between promin Besides food, all other necessaries are barley and oats now used in the produc-munity which has inreated its own re- ent members of Parliament consequent on difficult to get. Children's shoes in imitation of beef, mutton, and beer.

arcations and is not content with the words that were exchanged in the House tion leather, which do not last more than (2) Eight ounces of ment instead of leavings of a remote

three or four weeks, cost between 58s., and sixteen-and that the produce of lean, in-

h. I can hear the sh

of dismay and 68. Winter clothing is exceedingly diffstead of fat, stock, with the result that disagreement which is sent up at the very li there was no Parliamentary session cult to obtain, and even the army is doing by ceasing to feed upon grain the supply thought. There are so many people whe at Vienna, none could be expected at without uniforms in case of need. More would rapidly fall until femine prices are pained and outraged by the suggestion Pragne.

Indeed, Bohemia was, and is over, men in billets behind the firing line

that they should ever do without anything (3)Mik

to which they are accustomed.

I heard held down with an iron hand. Nowhere have been ordered to woar clogs, the leal world probably reach in the Empire is the demie for revolution they boots being reserved for the men in chilling a quart at the end of the summer, two men discussing how they could BEVO so deep-rooted as among the Czechs in the trenches. If this is the plight of the when it is usual to commence feeding on

One sid doubtfully money Dead I suppose one might knock wmething Bohemia Oppressed for years, deprived army, what must be the position of the grain,

(4.) There would be no butter or cheass off one's tailor's chil To' of their language, cribbed and cabized at civil population in regard to footwear › every point, the dominant population of Everyone who knows Vienna is aware of for sale to the public owing to the demand other replied: "My dear old chap, I've Bohemia had

thought that over long ago. good cause to be discontented

It can't bu with! Hapsburg rulo. A reign of terror of the town, The cafés may be called a with no fat stock of our own to sup- sort of clothes to wear."

the part played by the cafés in the life for frosh imported fats and oils, done. One simply must have the usual in Bahemin SWAY

Another men. now and the Czech refugees in England and France, have specifically Viennese institution.

a sad tale to tell of its victims and their glory has departed from them ply the raw material. margarine would told me that when he dined one evening many

aff a roast joins with vegetables and en They may not sell coffee, or, what serves cease to be made.. its course. Obviously this does not make such, except within given periods of (0) Sugar which we have not been apple for second course, his wife sent (4 for national unity, and the Czech, the the day Milk is a luxury, and the permitted to grow rice, muiz, condensed the doctor and his cock gave notice.lt Ruthenians, and the Slovenes, all op beverage must be taken black The milk fruite, nuts, eggs, lard, sago and not always easy to practise pressed by Austria, pray daily for the

cigarette or the cigar that cheered the other farinaceous materials, which are without, " defeat of the Central PowerL

comfort and Yet in the end it is always guest us he sipped or talked has declined more or less essential to Another significant fact is that the in quality and gone up in price. Some health, would be almost swept from the The mere act of proving to yourself that Austro-Hungarian Bank has published no times it is even unprocurable. In olden market returns ever since the war started. The days the visitor was supplied with flax the raw materials used in the manu prova it to others or you will be a

you are not enslaved by habit, or by self- Cotton, wool, leather, hemp, and indulgence has a bracing effect. (Do not German Imperial Bank, at any rate, lets matches; today he must bring his own.

he horrid I believe facture of clothes, would cease to arrive, nuisance!).

the wise old the world know the ratio between its paper He gets no sugar, and but little music. notes and their gold covering. The Cen-

and, while depriving the people of many Fathers of the Early Church ordnina ral Austro-Hungarian Bank does not vacant residences in the wealthier districts of thousands ont of employment.

Never before has Vienna had so many of the necessities of life, throw hundreds Lenten fasting not with any idea that we The conclusion is obvious, and the prestige and so much over-crowding in the proper

comfortable, but, because they knew that (8.)- We depend on our imports for tim.cat please God be making ourselves hu of Austro-Hungarian finance is not

subarbs. Is it any wonder that the people her for building our ships and for the men and women who did without,” occa- The mark has fallen on evil days in nen-

break out? Riots have been reported on equipment of out field and air forces for sionally were better all-round citizens tral countries, but the krone has become excellent mulharity from Vienna and seede, manure, and oil-cakes for agricul than those who never rked themselves a shadow of itself. The trade returns Budapest as well as from provincial centare: for horses for the remounts for out of their grooves. And they knew also between Austria and Hungary continued tro. It is not too much to say that they paper for our news and correspondence that it is loss difficult to practise doing to be published to the world for one are widespread and continual In the little time after the outbreak of war, but industrial districts the unemployed, co for tobacco for our troops for metal, without" if all practise it together. here, too, silence has been maintained for to and woollen and glass operatives are chinery, and a thousand other items

bears

raany months,"

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But

(8.)-Without

essential to our national life.

Courses

the

always worth it.

D MEANING OF CIVILISATION, I met a friend looking worried. said: “ I made up my mind yesterday to

less ent

on the verge of famine. In Vienna alone THE FOOD SHORTAGE 60,000 free meals were provided daily and I den, we are to continue our exist start eating less auck

the municipal authorities talk of raising the number to 200,000.

out all that Tending What

a liqeuer Yoiti

day's in

in the

GAME WHAT MUST BE DONE.

once as an Empire we must maintain our The good, easy-going Austrian might

freedone on the sea, and that wholly de-happened? I went outs to lunch and ate cave very little for these weakness, if

generally do although only he had enough to eat. But he is han The grain captures in Roumania will pends upon such a supply of fund us will rather more than F

That supply it was a lighter meal than would have gry far more hungry than his German not, apparently, bring salvation Official enable un to win the war. ally The German, at least, attempts to notices have already been issued in both will be determined by the arrangements been before the war In the evening organise his resources.

His efforts are halves of the Monarchy discounting the we make for its production during the dined at my club went there with the not always successful; they certainly do quantities seized. Perhaps the best test coming six weeks. Those arrangements most virtuous resolutions gaw sally the other men eating and drinking as usual- not come up to the face value he tries of the truth, of these notices is the con- must embraced

Conditions which will satisfy the form. did the same myself smoked a cigar with to give them. But at least the German tinued reduction of the heer output in

stopped myself makes the effort... The Austrian lets Austria Layers of Pilsner-and they er. Fixed miuinam prices for corn and my coffee; and:

may call things slide until it is too late. Hences are mowill have to do without their pulse for a definite term of years; the from ordering while prices are high in Germany, they favudits beverage for many breweries cultivation of second-class grass load that weakaces will. are higher still in Austria. The follow which produce this brand are about to ample provision of labour. Suct fixed I call it benes Fature, The Early retail prices for manures as will place Church saw that it must use compulsion ing items, taken from the nicuu of one of close their doors

them within the reach of growers of all to ensure fasting it ordained Lent the Vienna restaurants about the middle At the other end of the social scale, pro-clubes

Lord Devonport will have to follow that of last month, will be of interest in this fteers and war gontractors are making The compulsory

He will am aure, have to." connection: Soup esta Is, 3d., a portion fortunes

But uncertain does the vicinity of towns Ping of land in theexample."

1s not doing its us all cards through, the borough, of best und cabbage, 3. Ud. roast beer future appens to them that instead of duty refer especially to grass which district, and parish councils, and to make and green peas, & portion of a lending their money to the State, they is not yielding 10cwt of my to the aère all public eating-places (1 int

(I include clubs) and eggå, 5s.; a portion of beef ribs are converting it into durable forms of and to gardens and paddocks attached to observe three or four mentless sdirted sausage with mustard, wealth in the shape of diamonds and private housee so many of which are weekend smoked salmon, 85. id : scrambled eggs, pearls. Despite official prohibitions of empty but for which exorbitant rents are This country has not been called upon 3s 3d.; potato salad, 1s. 3d cucumber the import of luxuries, of this kind, busi- demanded where they are not absolutely yet to do without ** in the same degree, balad; ns. ed.

Bess in them is very brisk, and the alert refused.

as other countries. Wo have, it had to de The Austrians and Hungarious haveness of the authorities to stamp it out only The extraction of four from wheat to without our country like the Belgians and imitated the German regulative system proves how extensive must be its ramifica the extent of 20 per cent,

Serbians. We have not suffered invasión but the steps were taken long after their tions.

As trimediate reduction the con-like France. We have not to suffer cold adoption in Germay, and usually when

sumption of meat by 50 per cent, with a and hunger, to wait long, weary hours in simultaneous rechiction of the grain sup the snow, outside butchers and "bakers" for all manner of foodstuffs-bread, meat. It is said that the movement for peace plied to cattle and sleep, what grain to and groccus shops like the Russians. potatoes, fat, butter, and the rest. Ger has come from the new Austrian Emperor be utilised is human food and in a reduc Still, we have had to bear a good many many enforced meatless days. Germany Energetic determined to rule youthful fion of the price of bread change and we have borne them good-

sheep, set up a War Food Office Austria and and attractive, the new Monarch possibly 1 The slaughtering of cattle

Kumoaredly and so I believe we shall Hungary followed suit in all these things, desires peace, desires also to rid himself pics at an earlier age, and the conse

consequent

said to me the other but they were usually belijnd the time of the tutelage of his Imperial brother of saving of grain. 1 is well-known to the mees crumplersons along. One dous War Food Office, for example, was estab- Berlin. It is also claimed that the your expert that the weight gained towards the evening as we groped our way along a lished in both countries only last Novem mother's heart beating in the new Em- end of the feeding period does not often dark street Might be the Middle Ages. ber, though, the needs of the two halves press breast has been moved by the cover the cost of the food consumed in Seems s it civilisation had gone by the of the Dual Monarchy were every

whit

slaughter and the waste, and has thrown making

board: already.

But we know better than to think that It is the Empress Zita on the side of those who A further reduction in the quantity of os pressing as those of Germany,

Finally, it is barley employed in the production of beer civilisation is a matter of gas-lamps and easy to understand, therefore the inward desire peace at any price. of the plaint of one of the most outspoken held in some quarters that a section of the and its utilisation as food for man and electric standards. It does not depend Viennese daily papers. Lon the popula Magyar opposition in the Hungarinu cattle, and upon express rains and fast steamship tion hope for the best from the new Food Lower House is for pence. All these poa- If I were placed in charge of a parish upon sixpenny telegrams and five-course- Office, it wrote, although it is almost too sibilities may have some truth in them, and were required to feed its inhabitants dinners and wearing the ostal suit of late for the greatly tried Anstrich to hope. But above them sounds the discontent of I would if I were given plenary powers, clothes. What civilisation really monas at all. The Government's food policy in the great mass of the people, whose suffer commandeer avery acre, and every avail is respect for others, respect for la Austria la one long story of beinted efforts ings and tribulatione ory to Heaven able and capable man to till it, without order, respect for treaties and engage The fields are tion completely cultivated. The absence of itnything like a free forum the delay be, a day. If they were all ments, respect for ourselves. The things work of sowing and rearing has never in Austral the forces making for peace a week and shut up their shops. The is doing without them which strengthens prevents a clear working they should give two half-days we do without do not matter a rap. It heen properly organised, the live stock vision of all has been sadly depleted, and irrecoverable But among theta, it is certain, the popular public looks to the Government let the self-respect, and therefore strenget has lpes and damage is the result. This came clamon is the greatest Everything Government look to the mes. They are civilisation. If you have not settled, the out despite the censorship. How much depends on how much longer the author willing to act if the land is provided. — question already ask yourself immediate

Daily Mail.

What can I do without Daily Mail

it was too late Germany introduced tickets

worse must the whole truth bet

THE DESIRE FOR PEACE.

ties aan keep the people down.

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