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Show CHRISTMAS III Rich Will Eat, but It Will Be Sadly Different With Poor By Aseeclsted Press. VIKNNA. Iec. 14. With shops closed st o'clock In ths afternoon, after which the streets ars In semi-darkness semi-darkness with homes lacking In light snd heat, with food and clothing at famine prices, snd more than 60 000 persons unemployed, Vienna's first pesre Christmas promises to be far more rloomy than any during the four yeais of the wur Persons Willi tinll.nlted means can gel nearly everything every-thing they need, but the middle ciasaea anil the families of profeeslonsl men. who before the war and even two yesrs ago were comfortably well off. must, for Instance, go to bed on Christmas night at o'clock because of the entire en-tire lack of light. Bines the armistice wss signed the shopkeepers have brought out amazing stores of goods, especially of clothing, which onlv a few days previously they ssserted were nones latent. I 'rices hsve fallen to one-fourth the' previous fsn-tastic fsn-tastic rates, but are atill too high for any but the war profiteers. Food prices show no reduction and are atlll prohibitive In many cases, while soma products, like milk, are almost unobtainable. unob-tainable. The newspapers report that 60.00 persons were waiting at the meat markets mar-kets on Saturday morning, of whom 10 000 had been standing In queues all night long. Turke cost ID a pound, beef $J. ajid K.rk IS. Ths prices of all Christinas fiiilta ars equally exorbitant. |