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Show SAY AUSTRIA IS IN AWFUL CONDITION ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS, Tuesday, Nov. 12. (By the Associated Press.) G. D. Mcljced of Montreal, an aviator, and C O. Young; of Des Moines, Iowa, imprisoned im-prisoned by the Austrians during: the Italian Ital-ian campaign, have reached the Italian linos. They bring- direct news of conditions condi-tions in the interior of Austria, having traveled from Salzerbad, near Vienna, after being liberated. "Horrible food conditions prevail in Austria," said M-cTJeed today, ''and it is quite possible that a million persons will die there this winter from lack of food, weakness and disease. The country is ' quiet now, but another Russia may grow out of the situation as soon as the iroops returning from the front discover that the end of the war has not brought relief. "Scenes along the railways are like those on the battlefield, We saw bodies scattered here end there as a result of men crowding on the tops of trains and being swept off by tunnels. There were aJ so bodies of wounded men who have been taken from Red Cross cars and left to die. Terrible sanitary conditions prevail pre-vail in little towns filled with returning soldiers. "What Austria needs is food. The other prisoners and I are alive only because be-cause of food received from outside of Austria. For three days my friend and I had between us only a little bad bread. It was about as big as a man's band. Five hundred newly arrived Serbian troops are keeping order at Laibach." |