WHOLESALE EMIGRATION.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 26 July 1917, Page 2

WHOLESALE EMIGRATION.

AUSTEIANB FLOCKING TO . AMERICA.

As with many other Europeans countries, Austro-Hungary has just taken a census. The results have startled the politicians and set them searching for remedies to prevent the wholesale emigration that is taking place. For, while was estimated that there would be an increase of 3,078,000 over the figures of 1900, the increase worked out at only 2,417,,000. And current returns since then emphasise the trouble by showing 20 per cent, more deaths than births this year. All over the Empire, America' is shown to be the goal of the ambitious subjects of the Emperor. Nearly half a million have left Galicia, 159,000 Bohemia, 93,000 Moravia, and, in Hungary the land has been so depleted of labourers that farmers are powerless to secure efficient helpers.

Lower Austria alone shows a very slight gain, bearing out the comment that German and Italian localities increased somewhat, while Polish and Czech districts have all been depleted. In ten years 727,000 left for America, last year's contributions being 150,000. Another, serious point' in the situation is the dicffiulty of finding sufficient recruits for the army, for the flower of the youth have crossed the Atlantic.