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Show NO SHORTAGE. Shortage of nirn in Germany is suggested sug-gested in a dispatch which states that military laws are being modified so as to admit the physically and morally defective into the army. If there is a shortage of men in Ger- many it can be only comparative. The Teutonic allies have fewer meu than the entente allies, but when the war began Germany's possible number of soldiers was more than 10,000,000. The total loss in dead, crippled and missing cannot exceed ;i,000.000, so that the country still would have 7,000,000 available avail-able for the army and the auxiliaries back of the army. Gu at a v C. Kooder, who has been connected con-nected with the Xew York World for twenty-eight years, has just returned from a trip of investigation iu Germany. Ger-many. He finds that Germany has munitions mu-nitions and men to fight for years and the experts he consulted claimed that 10,000,000 soldiers still were available. Tfe learned that the Germans were weary of the war, but that the- would accept peace onlv on terms favorable to themselves. That a sufficient amount of food had been conserved for a long-drawn-out conflict, and that in many cases of shortage substitutes had been invented. The most serious shortages are iu meats and fats, copper aud rubber. But what of Austria-Hungary? No trained investigator has told us about conditions in the dual monarchy. Austria-Hungary was at the beginning and is now the weaker member of the Teutonic Teu-tonic coalition. Tnuelers with limited means of observation have represented the country as in a bad way for men as well as for food. Russia is once more making a drive against the Austrians, feeling that if there is a weak spot in the Teutonic armor it is Austria. A few weeks should show whether Austria is short of men and munitions. |