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Once a year Austrian recruiting offices open, vacancies in the Austrian Army are filled. Under the Treaty of St. Germain each recruit must enlist for twelve long years...
Indignant Viennese newspapers stressed what seemed to them the piteous fact that the hunger-driven Austrian recruits will receive for the next twelve years only a minute wage, plus bed & board. The Treaty of St. Germain, they added bitterly, deprived Austria of all seaports and consequently of her Navy, reduced her Army to 30,000 men (including officers) and limited her "heavier armaments" to 450 machine guns, 60 trench mortars and 90 field guns & howitzers. Each Austrian soldier is permitted to have a gun, but the nation's stock of bullets is limited...
...World War, still an Austrian citizen, he was British Inspector General of the Sudan, honorary British Major General. Egyptian Lieutenant General. He returned to Austria but refused to fight the English. served instead in the Austrian Red Cross and as a member of the Austrian peace delegation at St. Germain...
...British and French conversion periods both ended last week. M. Germain-Martin gave his countrymen only six days in which to make up their minds, instead of three months, which was the British period of grace. Both conversions were highly successful, only 8%. of the British bondholders asking for their money and only 1% of the French...
...Many of those [Frenchmen] who did demand cash " said M. Germain-Martin, "gave as their reason that they 'fear an imminent...