Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-01-29 | Page 2 | Austria Urged to Confiscate Grains

Austria Urged to Confiscate Grains VENICE Via London Jan 2 29 Dis DI Dis patches from Vienna state that the tho elt city council and the press pres are demanding that the Austrian government immediately follow tollow the tho example of ot Germany German and cone con all stocks of ot grain flour and meal Practically no grain is being of or- or offered on the markets In to Vienna Budapest Buda Buda- pest peat or Prague The newspapers the dl dispatches state declare that a Il great catastrophe threatens atens unless uless confiscation is adopted and It denoun denounces s tho the selfish attitude of at certain certain- Hungarian an agriculturists agriculturist who ho It is claimed are aro hiding thousands thouM of or tons of grain and flour Responding to tho the appeals of ot land owners tho the Austrian government Jo has consented to tho the employment of prison prison- eta era of at war in field work thus re replacing peasants who have gone to the front Tho The prisoners will vm bo sent flent out in detachments detach detach- ments menta of ot ten to a 8 hundred men mon and cODe consequently will bo ho available only on the larger estates