140,000 People Breadless for a Week From a lecture delivered by Professor Ferenczi, of the Budapest University, it appears that in Budapest the prices of foodstuffs have risen enormously, but the rise in the prices of clothing is still more exorbitant. From Novem: her, 1918, to April, 1920, the weekly vations were reduced as follows:
Flour, including bread, from 7.60 ito 3.60 kilos; sugar, from 0.75 to 0.30, fat, from 0.20 to 0.10, but this is not being issued at all at present. The majority of the population are unable to pay the prices of 32 to 34 kronen for flour which are demanded by profiteers. The tiny bread ration of less than a quarter. of a pound, per head could not be issued in March at all, and hence 140,000 people were left without bread for a week.
Hundreds of families, are huddled together in railway wagons or other shelters unfit for human habitation. The want of clothes, linen, and shoes is intense. Thousands of mothers formerly belonging to the well-to-do classes have applied to charitable institutions or the authorities for baby clothes. Thow-sands of children have been prevented in the cold season from going to school for want of shoes.
In 1919 the number of deaths exceeded that of births by 1,550, and the number of victims of consumption rose from 3,260 in 1912 to 4,611 (or 43.9 per 10,000 inhabitants) in 1919. The mortality among babies and small children particularly is assuming enormous dimensions, the causes of death being diseases entailed by poverty.
The negotiations between the Ungarische Bank-und Handelsgesei-Ischaft and a group of Engli: financiers have resulted in an agreement. The directors of the bank have convened an extraordinary general meeting at which the syndicate will be rename "d the British and Hungarian Bank. Id. and the share capital will be increased from 120,000,000 to 220.00,000 kronen by the issue of 200,000 new shares. On the completion of this measure the total capital of the bank. including its ible reserves, will amount to 390,009,000 kronen.
Thus English capital is now prominently re. presented in the economic life of Hungary side by side with Italian and French capital. respondence, in original manuscript, of Gustavus TIL, one of the most brilliant and interesting figures in Swedish history, who wrested their ill-used power from the nobles by a coup d'Etat, and in revenge was shot at a masked ball in 1762. The letters, which are largely in French (Gustavus was steeped 'n French culture, and on_ his visits to Paris was courted by the French Academicians), run into over hundred volumes.
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