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Show AUSTRIA URGED I TO SEJZE GRAIN Great Catastrophe Threatens Unlets Confiscation Is Adopted Promptly by I Government. j Venice, via London, Jan. 2d, 9:25 j a. m Dispatches from Vienna stale that the city couucll and the press are demanding that the Austrian gov- j ernment immediately follow the ex- j ample of Germany and confiscate all j stocks of grain, flour and meal. Prat- j1 tlcally no grain is being offered on ! the markets in Vienna. Budapest or j Prague. The press, the dispatches state, declared that a great eatastro- j phe threatens unless confiscation is Am adopted and it denounces the selfish I attitude of certain Hungarian agricul- mm turallsts. who. it is claimed are bid- I ing thousands of tons of grain and j flour Responding to the appeals of land owners, the Austrian government has J consented to the employment of prl- j oners of war in field work, thus re- Ij placing peasants who have gone to j the front The prisoners will be sent out in detachments of ten to a hun- t dred men and consequently will be available only on the larger estate. i"VV . ' |