It cost me 970 crowns, which ,to the
Viennese, is equivalent -to about 30 or
40 pounds,
"Do you wonder that the well-to-do
people in Vienna are burning their
furniture to light their stoves? Can
you imagine how the poor live or try
to live? It is not unusual to see the
traffic in one of the main streets
which leads to the cemetery held up
by hearses. Nine-tenths carry the
bodies of children.
"In Vienna, in the palace of a for
mer archduke, I saw thousands of
children fed with American Relief
food under the control of a younff
naval officer, whom I was proud to
recognize as one of those Americans
who did excellent work in the early
days of the Commission for Relief in
Belgium. Our own British Relief
Missions, both in Austria and in Hun
gary, and a number of unofficial Brit
ish workers are doing everything
possible to stem the tide of -distress.'
In Serbia alone. Sir William declared,
there are 600,000 fatherless children,
most of whom are . suffering from
hunger and exposure.
