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Show FOOD IN AUSTRIA FOR PEOPLE ABLE TO PAY THE PRICE VIENNA, Thursday, Nov. 21. (By the Associated Press.) The food situation Is still a geperal topic of conversation. It is evident there is plenty of food in the hotels and restaurants for those persons who are able to pay the equivalent of from S2 to $5 for each meal. The poor have been finable to obtain rice or macaroni. maca-roni. That this class of the population Is still alive is due simply to their endurance. en-durance. According to Dr. Walter Otis, an American, food conditions were never so bad as now. both in Vienna and the country districts. On the farms there still are a certain irumber of hogs which are being fattened with milk. This milk. Dr. Ot!s said, was really needed for the sick, but the farmer earned more money by feeding it to their hogs. He added the milk supply would cease as soon as the coldest weather sets in in the middle mid-dle of December. John Arthur Weiss, another American, says there fs- possibly enough food for another two months. Speculation in food during the war has been one of the chief causes of the poor n-.rrering. It is said that Archduke Frederick, Fred-erick, uncle of the former emperor, speculated spec-ulated in the milk produced on his large farm nfar V ienna. H iH now a fugitive and his palace m the Alhrecht platz is cloned. |