London typists on the staff of the British Reparations Mission in Vienna. have said a sad good bye to Austria. Their work at the War Ministry building for the past ten months has ended.
They have been going to the opera nightly and wearing fur coats, living like queens in the best hotels upon their daily allowance of £1 sterling, which is 2,700 to 2,800 kronen in Austrian money, and they feel downhearted at the prospect of having to go back to furmished rooms in Clapham or Camber well.
It is the long-suffering British taxpayers who will have to foot the bill.
Perhaps they may be consoled by the knowledge that the people in Austria are grateful to England and America for what they have done to save them from starvation.
Living is 100 times dearer than it was before the war.
Despite all this, however, the opera, theatres and dance halls are filled every night.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.