Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-10 | Page 4 | Food Famine near in Austria-Hungary

FOOD FAMINE NEAR IN AUSTRIA-HUNGARY COPENHAGEN. Nov. 9. A Danish journalist who has just returned from Austria-Hungary stales that the civil population pop-ulation is depporate owing to lack of food. X pound of meat, he says, costs $2. The overwhelming- majority of tthe people are near starvation. Prominent citizens have declared openly that Austria does not want territory; she wants peace. "What about Serbia?" the correspondent asked a famous Austrian. "We do not wan any part of Serbia," was the reply. "She will remain independent. inde-pendent. Tlie Serbians are-a brave little nation." The correspondent adds: The impression in Austria and Germany Ger-many was that the British blockade " was the most terrible weapon against the central powers. The efforts to supply soldiers is leaving civilians in a critical stHte. Nevertheless, there is general confidence con-fidence in Austria in a successful end of the war, because they hold that the Balkan victories will finish the war in a short lime. They look with misgiving misgiv-ing upon the idea of fighting through the winter if tho blockade Is maintained, main-tained, but they profess to believe that a winter campaign will be unnecessary. unneces-sary. British and French operations in the Balkans are represented by Austrian officers as a fiasco.