Famine In Galicia After War Scare.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 22, 1913:
Thousands Near Starvation in Austrian Province — Border Troops Suffer Hardships.
ATROCITIES AT TCHATALJA
Withdrawal of Bulgarian Lines Has Left Christian Inhabitants Exposed to Fury of the Turks.
    VIENNA, Feb. 21.— As the joint result of the Balkan war scare and the shortage of food crops thousands of persons in Galicia are threatened with starvation. The bad harvest chiefly affects the peasantry in the country districts, while in the towns the fear of hostilities has brought trade and industry to a standstill. Factories are closed and thousands of persons are without employment.
    In Lemberg, Cracow, Stanislau, and other cities the suffering is so general that the communal authorities are distributing bread and potatoes to the populace. The municipal funds for this purpose have become exhausted, however, and a deputation has arrived in Vienna to appeal to the Government for aid. The President of the Council of Ministers has promised that sufficient support will be given to continue the distribution of food. Many thousands of soldiers encamped on the frontier of Servia, are suffering hardships owing to the rigorous Winter, inadequate shelter, and the deplorable state of the commissariat. The complaints of the soldiers have been so bitter that many Socialists and Liberal Deputies are demanding that the War Office begin to demobilize the army and send the men home.