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be for a total period of Dot less than 12 consecutive years, including at least .~>ix years with the colours. The proportion of officers and men discharged for any reason before the expiration of their term of enlistment must not exceed one-twentieth of the total strength. All measures of mobilisation are for- bidden.

The number of gendarmes, customs officers, foresters, and members ol police forces must not exceed the number employed in a similar capacity in 1913. Educational establishments and all sporting and other clubs are for- bidden to occupy themselves with any military matters. Within two months of the final ratification of the Treaty the air forces of Austria are to be demobilised. The armed forces of Austria must not include any military or naval air forces, and no dirigibles are to be kept. All naval and military aeronautical material, including aeroplanes, seaplanes, dirigibles, and parts of these, is to be handed over to the Allies. During the six months which follow the final ratification of the Treaty, the manufacture, importation, and exportation of aircraft, and parts of aircraft, are forbidden.

In the new army the Government has organised six infantry regiments for Vienna and Lower Austria ; six Aljwijager regiments for Upper Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Salzburg, and Tyrol ; two infantry battalions for Burgen- tand ; one jager battalion for Salzburg ; and one jager battalion for Vorarlberg. There are besides six cycle battalions, six squadrons of cavalry, seven artillery and six technical units.

2. Navy.

As Austria now has no seaboard, the former Austro- Hungarian fleet has ceased to exist. Under the Armistice terms, 3 battleships, 3 light cruisers, 9 destroyers, 12 torpedo-boats, a minelayer, and 6 Danube monitors, were to be surrendered to the Allies. The battleship Fran: Ferdinand and the ' Dreadnought ' battleship Tegetthojf were brought by the Italians to Venice, with some other vessels. In January, 1920, the Inter-Allied Naval Commission allotted to France the ships lying at Cattaro, being 1 battleship, 3 cruisers, 4 torpedo cruisers, 13 torpedo-boats, and smaller craft They had been seriously injured and partially dismantled by Czecho-Jugo-Slav officers and men, but were to be patched up and taken to Bizerta, Toulon, and Marseilles by Allied officers and crews. The light cruiser Xuvara, while en rout?, sprang a leak and was towed into Brindisi, where she sank but has been refloated. The only war vessels now remaining to Austria are certain small monitors and other vessels in the Danube.

Production and Industry.

Agriculture forms the main occupation of the country. In 1919 the total acreage sown amounted to 4,084,121 acres (4,165,214 acres in 1918). Of the total in 1919, 2,123,175 acres were in Lower Austria and 929,988 acres in Upper Austria. The chief products are shown as follows for 2 years : —

Mi

Crop

Acreage

Yield (metric ton-)

Acreage

(metric tons)

Wheat.

Rye

Barley.

Oats

Potatoes

Turnips

375. 12S 725,090 235.303 613.162 341,160 83,007

139,171

229.503

n,so7 r,iM

I 14,904 417,543

374,032

6$S,687

240,916

J,740>

'.6971 87.285*

149,515 251,410 97,-07 1S7.7301 584,9961 536,1821

1 Figure for 1918.