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Show AUSTRIAN FOOD STILUUiPING Disintegration of . the Former For-mer Empire Goes on Apace. : VIENNA, Friday, No'. 2a. (By the Associated Press.) The disintegration of the former Austro-Hungarian empire goes on apace and is accompanied by fighting here and there and the depredations of marauding bands. Meanwhile the food situation in Vienna becomes more perilous peril-ous each day. Czecho-Slovak forces have occupied Bodenbaeh, near the German frontier thereby cutting off from Vienna large stores of provisions. Czecho-Slovaks have garrisoned the larger part of German-Bohemia and are said to be pressing toward the frontiers of upper Austria. In the south the Jugoslavs Jugo-slavs have occupied Marburg, which claims to be a German city. Their forces also have entered the provinces of Garinthia and Styrla. In the northeast the Pples continue their fight with the Ukrainians and are advancing over the Carpathian mountains to the frontiers of Hungarv. They are reported to be robbing the Jews as they go. A Rumanian army has marched into Bukowma as far as Kolomea on the rier Pruth. It is claimed in Vienna that this force is clearly out of the limits of the Rumanian sphere in Eukowina. Vienna is outwardly calm. The winter snows have come and the restaurants and hotels are full of well dressed people. peo-ple. But over all is an atmosphere of Intense expectancy. Although the new government appears to be composed of competent and well in-tentioned in-tentioned men. they are being overwhelmed over-whelmed by the problem of feeding and keeping warm two million persons. The price of fond continues to Jump. A piece of chocolate smaller than an American silver dollar sells for three dollars. There also is a lack of fats. Pork Is selling at J3 a pound. Robbery is rampant. |