AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1918, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

JMJSTRIAN POLITICAL CRISIS. FORMING NEW-^CABINET.' Beceived July 22, 105 pan. Vienna, July 22. iSmperor Carl has accepted Dr Sadler's resignation and Count Czemin is forming a new Cabinet. London, July 22. The resignation of the Austrian Cabinet is due to the refusal of Dr. Seidler to" accede to the demands of the Poles and Slats, who are in a majority. The defeat on the Piave and the German failure at the Marne, as well as the economic distress in Austria, were also lectors.—Reuter. ■ : i HUMAN SACRIFICES. TO THE GERMAN O0& AGED GERMAN MAY BE GIVEN SUICIDE ORDER. (By a Swiss Journalist.) London, May 8. . besptte tie glittering hopes dangled 4wf ore than, Germans to-day see a great ■hadew ever their country. That shadow b hunger. They all know, from the Kaiser down to the Berlin washerwoman, that unless they can obtain a speedy peace it will be quite impossible for them Co hold out for the coining harvest , The situation will in all likelihood be to terrible by July that not a few of the world's soberest thinkers believe that Germany will collapse internally before her army can be defeated in the fieldIt is for this reason that neutrals who know Germany assert that the Germans, ■with their readiness to sacrifice the world to Moloch, will nbt hesitate to get rid of all ever-aged .men and women whose age and Infirmity prevent them, from helping to carry on the war—who cannot work, £vt who must be fed. Booh an idea is horrible and revoking to anyone who is not a Hun, but there is every reason to believe that it has been germinating a long time in the 'Hub mind.

It follows the axiom of & great German military leader who laid down as a nret principle of warfare that not a single person, with the exception of children, was to be given food unless he or she ni of direct serviee to the military machine.

The Germans are now faced with the grim fact thaj 4,000,000 mouth* at the verr least bate to be filled three time* a day without the army being in the least heter off f.or the loss of the valuable food consumed.

The cold-Wooded, calculating German, wtt& his grim devotion to the war machine, can never overcome his regret for the loss of these 18,000,000 meals a day.

It it for this reason that observers h*v# hinted that there is nothing more likely than that Hnn males and females ore? 70 will receive a polite intimation that shortage of food, this incessant aap■oing away of the vitality of a nation already exhausted on the bttlefietfs of Europe, if continued, is adding to the acerbity of public manners. There is a general hardening of the Han mind against the slightest vestige of sentimentality. For this reason, there is little ground to disbelieve that when the Kaiser gives the order for the ■fed to die for the sake of Germany, the yonn'ger people will see that the order i, carried out, «o that the rations of «u» remaining may be greater. AUOTHMFi^iANioWBR. When Austria entered the war in 1914 her total mobflisabl* strength was set down at 4,300,000 men, but »f these she prc%abty eonM put only 1,500,000 into th* Held in W first disastnms fighting fr*«t ltnims Her normal accretions ire estimated at 500,000, and, calculating the amount at its maximum, her total noMfisetkms at the end ef the third jmr wotfld be 6,800,000 men. from this suit fee subtracted her definite losses la Oat period, totaling at least $200,000, wmeh left her in August of last year • afoot t/KO/JOO men. Austria has never WlWw*** any" aecomrt of her casualties, bts her losses in June* 1917/ were generaflr estimated to be; Killed, 850/100; tutored or mksingV 833JW0; setioasly irilaiUn, SGtym, It is known Oat the Mtftfcme bt the fourth yea/ Were much trie* normal Anstria, Kte Genwßy, fimvcWn ill advance on her classes, and, SilfctttMa, «*• mm suffered ton greater tTwMt than any of the belligerents throofth the towering of fh* physical sfcftmrd. tt is not too rnwi, tteref ore, to mr/ that the wastage id the foarOi yetfmU equalled the accretions, and this wotfd k«v» Austria with an available torn HOW of 3,020,000 men. Bat it is •xtremerf tmUkary that there Is anyifcng Eke this strength under arms, or thai so large a foree eoald now be mobffitod. Approximately 1,600,000 men , are on the Itaßan front, another ISO/M 0 •M in other theatres, and possibly 260,069 are in garrison, Jn j