Show BUDAPEST CROWDS WAIT VAIT c F FOR FOOD amine Threatens Nation Fuel Fuci Shortage Makes Situation Worse III lb J N. N nw ik I LONDON LONDO Nov I The I.-The Hungarian frightened by the specter I It f famine Ii I. seeking to appoint a food but can find nobody to under undu- nice ake the Job and dictate with regard to which has baa no existence writes a corre correspondent lie de ow the commonest l ht In Budapest that ot of little crowd mainly women rho ho wait wearily outside the shops for which they cannot get et In the Pest Naplo describes he torture of these thue unfortunate women n 0 nfl an article telling how howe crowds In e saw among the waiting rant of a a. butchers shop II captain ot of olice In civilian clothes I went up o 0 speak to him says and that the dreaded judge of at the price raisers who has sentenced ome thousands of them to imprison imprison- rient ent has hal to stand among the rest and watt his turn He being an expert on he food miseries of this unfortunate told me that the women have o 0 stand one or two hours to got get a few from two to three hours If hey want a bit of sausage from three o 0 four hours for a 0 Quarter of no a pound f sugar and from tour four to five hours or a bit of lard or fat Ills servant irl rl was waa knitting her hor stockings before L green reen grocers grocer's ocer's shop while he or a bit of lard A woman who wants o 0 get et something to eat for her chii- chii Iren ren every day must spend at least five fiver r six hours waiting In the queues The Budapest authorities have Just Sued two tickets one for the general a 0 general kind of ticket without which single tickets for bread meat maize potatoes etc are re useless z hue rhese general tickets can cane m e procured only by the permanent In Budapest and the refugees ees which me means ns that ravel ere and visitors must take their with them or go hungry The second ticket Issued to the holders of oC the tickets ticket Is a bean ticket which entitles entities every Inhabitant to bu buy alC a. a pound of oC beans a month This makes maces the eighteenth ticket the In habitants of Budapest now have havo to procure and It Is reckoned that in orie or- or ie to get the goods referred to In any t r the eighteen tickets involves the Loss or of halt half a 0 days day's work II Soaring I People tn in Budapest are arc tired of rumbling about the prices of aries saries Within the ast month they have again risen from 60 to per perI I rent nt but even the prices would not I matter so much It only the food could e obtained Budapest Is like a town besieged and the people will soon have o 0 follow the example of the Parisians I n 1870 and eat rats and mice The trouble Is III that the Prussians ne ire taking away nearl nearly everything and what they leave is III seized by the Aus- Aus There is scarcely any soap in hungary Hun Hun- gary Iary and the and Austrians re re as badly off In this respect as the hungarians are A smaL quantity hOWever Is imported from Holland and om the northern neutrals The Pest Naplo learns that the dis- dis ot of the Imported soap among he three allies is 18 being made In this Germany gets 70 per cent 27 per cent and Hungary h he eo that rest Is 2 2 per cent It Is most the same samo as 88 regards Hungarian for tor the take the put part of It and leave leav the Hungar- Hungar ans to starve The general depression in n account ot or the distressing state of flairs Is very roat groat and the news news- apers devote more than halt half their enIre enire en- en Ire space to what hat they call caU their the food tood benes Soldiers on Half Rations It If one takes all these things into ac- ac with the fact that the military re rc being fed on halt rations and that Inter will Inevitably bring with It a a amIne mIne amine such uch AS no imagination can i It Is b possible to forecast an i arly end of the war Winter Is the float dreaded d word In lIun hungary y today specially as there is 18 no fuel and no lope ope ot of an Improvement ement In this respect tor t. t I or the railways are overburdened with he be work of military and annot supply civilians with fuel In a I thus things will look still i I In Austria the conditions art said to toe I 11 e even wor for there the people lays not only no vegetables but In I nany places they ue are sometimes with with- Jut iut bread for weeks week and the working e In Bohemia are In inS S 1 dan dangerous rous state ot of exasperation Ten housand although inder military control struck work In at the beginning ot of October nd d would not work two wagon ads eads of at flour our Were distrIbuted among hem Twenty of the leaders were ar- ar ested and have hav not been seen since The newspaper correspondents In send parcels of food tood and and such lIuch things every and I Ta re spending the time In supplying the tiffs taUs of at their newspapers with corn com Instead of telegraphing news lope ope in Rumania In such circumstances it Is no Cause or surprise that I great rt t things are ex- ex I of the concentration against and that the chief hope which I the authorities lII is that the the against that country will end n Its us Invasion and the seizure of the thereat rest reat quantities of foodstuffs which It There ar are some who attribute the Prussian cain carn- Ien on the front to his end and argue that unless Gerany Gery Ger- Ger any y and the monarchy chy can procure tufts from somewhere withIn the ext two or three months and this can only he Rumania the nine me will be up before the Inter Is ver var The cannot starve us out boast all aa b become me sufficiently transparent nd prominent nt polIticians 5 agree that h-at h ot of ail lIthe the starving out of the arm army sill follow contend that the first Wo years ears of he war Indicate that the power of oC the central empires II C fax far short of their needs In spite o of he e a assistance derived from Crom neutrals I la luring that period As the war goes Ioe on I he be toed food difficulties wilt wUl Increase and boner or later ter Internal troubles wl will too Intense to allow of at contin- contin lation of an external struggle straggle The ock ot of cattle as aa compared with pre pre- liar aar times t is said to have jO 70 r I cent While the producing power ot of ho he land Is said to show 40 0 PH cent owing to the shortage ot of Isor Is- Is or and materials By organization by sport to the tIk t system Germany I I ha haO ha h. h hopi hen able to U e g t on on nn hut no organization organ will help haip In m Austria Hun I It Is declared where there Is 15 s nothing I to i organize |