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Show AUSTRIA'S PENALTY. Come to think of it, Dr. Seitr is right. Tho terms to be exaeted from Austria are drastic enough to justify the Tienna cabinet's outburst. Only about 7,000,000 Austrians are left of the vast population formerly under the scepter of the Hapsburg dynasty. Three and a half millions of German-speaking Austrians, the backbone of tho nation, are abandoned to Bohemia, together with the most important mining and industrial resources of the one-time dual monarchy. With tho Tyrol and Moravia Austria loses its source of agricultural wealth. Nothing is left of fhe puissant puis-sant empire but 4,500,000 mountain peasants and some 2,300,000 city dwellers. dwell-ers. All the former Austrian resources are to belong to the Hungarians, Czechs, Poles, Kumanians, Italians and Jugoslavs. Jugo-slavs. Practically the whole of Austrian Aus-trian assets are aw-arded to other nationalities na-tionalities of the former empire. Only liabilities are reserved for the remnant rem-nant of Austria. Vienna particularly is concerned about where she will obtain ob-tain the food for her 2,000,000 of population, popu-lation, who will take her products, which are mostly luxury articles, and how she can obtain raw materials. Germany complains that the terms handed her by the allied and associated powers are unbearable. Germany should ponder on the conditions exacted from her ally in the crime of 1914 and thank her stars that the Erzberger notion of punishment was not taken by the entente en-tente as a standard of peace-making ethics. Austria suffers most grievously because Austria parts with provinces annexed by force. Germany loses less territory for the reason that, with all her shortcomings, she did not measure I up to her ally's record as a robber of other people's domains. |