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Show FACING STARVATION . IN CONSTANTINOPLE Conditions In Turkish Capitol Are Declared De-clared to Be Exceedingly Grave; Fighting for Bread. Special Cable to The Tribune. SALOXIKI, April 29. The latest news from Constantinople reports that the difficulty dif-ficulty of feeding the population Is becoming be-coming so great that the newspapers are advising people to leave the capital and tio to Asia Minor, where provisions are said to be more plentiful. The Journal Tanin says that the people In the capital are literally dying of hunger. hun-ger. Blfick misery. It pays. Is the only term which can be used to describe the condition of affairs at Constantinople, Broussa, Angora and Smyrna, The newspaper say a: We suffer from a great lack of provisions, pro-visions, while thousands of unom-plo unom-plo ed wander miscrablv In the streets, looking for work which they wll) not ie akie to find. That shows the extreme gravity of the economic crisis which we are now furing. There Is no petrol, coffee, purar or rice. The people have to fight In onipr to get bread. It Is slmplv impossible to supply the people of Constantinople wltn provisions. |