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Show 'AUSTRIAN NOBILITY REDUCED TO DIRE POVERTY Field Marshal, Once Heroic Figure, Reported to Be on Verge of Starvation VIENNA. Jan. 7. Field Marshal Bohmermolll, the hero of Lemoerg, la starving to death In Vienna. With a pension of $2 50 a veek. thli 'old warrior Juat manaitea to keep body and anul together by going to tlie free kitchens for ona miserable meal a dav. lieneral Uaron Korstner. & years old 'and Baroness Koratner, once figures at th. Vienna court, .re In a worse fix with a pension of 5 a month. They ret a lltti meat once a week, the rent of the time living on dlahea conrocted by the baroness from hluck bread, tur- nips and horses auxuge. SUFFERING WIDESPREAD. . Nearly I0.00 former government of-IVtiils of-IVtiils and thei rfiimillea are trying to exist on $1 a month per family. More than JO.n'iO families ure homeless. The sidewalks of the maJn streets of enre gay Vienna ar lined with beggars and cripples. The tiorlal rvmoerntlc government Is looking after the working people. They mil .trving, thonph tlirrg iS IT1U h it kneHg among their luklr-ii. It Is the mlddlo and professional cIhsm-s that are In dire want. I ran Adler. wif. of a government! official, la running kit. hen restauranla for the midillo claaars and la fi-cding ifi.o'M a dav. VIENNA WORST HIT. The writer has been In all the countries coun-tries that were In the war. The burdtn of the struggle and the greater burden .f the peace have fallen most on the jX iKtrlan capital. Its greatness was dimmed when Ihe race treaty took away from Austria her granaries, her factorlea and her raw materials In Pohemla, Moravia, Slovakia, Slo-vakia, Blleaia and In much of what Is j. w Jugo-Blavia. v Austria la particularly In need of roitl and long-time credits from the United Htatea and Kngland. |