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Show HIGH RATES EMPTY HOTELS OF VIENNA VIENNA. Nov 18 The cost of liv- ;iru-r in Austria particularly Yiennu, Is I now higher than In any country of, Kurope except Czecho-Slovakla. prices generally have risen with Incredible rapidity, until now hotel ratea an (equal to Paris, while restaurant prices are above those of any city on the continent. Tho result Is an exodus of foreigners Hotels In which It has I been impossible to secure accommod.i-' tlons during the last eighteen months iarc today 60 per cent empty, but their, rates atlU go up. The so-called luxury i trade Is stagnated and the famous I shops of the Inner city are bare of! cuatomeri Tho Austrian crown 13 Jnow 73,000 to the dollar Another far tor In the stagnation of high class business is an Increase in the tax on the retail sale of articles, ' luxury from 7 per cent to l i' )" r i cent. This lax produced in Jun 967 - ,000 crowns, in Julv 1,413,000,000. and in August 3,300.000.000. |