GERMANY TO-DAY.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19112, 22 September 1927, Page 15

GERMANY TO-DAY.

«A BURSTING BOILER."

POSITION OF POST-WAR AUSTRIA.

«To-day Germany is the most proßperliu country in Europe. Her people are hard-working, her leaders, Hindeaburg jnd \ Streseman, are strong men. As Japan in the East, so Germany in Europe; they arc both virile States v hi«t must expand—bursting boilers. The day is not far distant when the Austria of to-day, indeed many of those small central European States born t of the war, will become part of the German' Empire." This is the view which Professor F. Scbaffer, who holds the Cha% of Geology at the University of Vienna, .expressed with considerable force to a pgjgs representative yesterday. The professor went on to say that Germany' B recuperative power was rewritable and the small States on her gonthern border stood in awe of her. The States were so closely interdependent commercially that. the. system of the Zollvercin must come back'. "With yon it is different," continued the professor, "your Empire is scattered and in 'many things you are indepei lent, but our geographical position makes onr interests in many ways identical. The different systems of taxation and pustoms duties which prevailed in the different States made trade difficult.

Austria of To-day. ,Professor Schaffer went on to toll of the contrast between pre-war Austria s'hd that nation of to-day. In 1014 she waa a cosmopolitan monarchy -with a population of some fifty-six millions speaking some five o>-. six different languages. To-day Austria was a Republic with a President in Vienna, a homogeneous nation of six million souls. These were the Austrians proper, and German was the official language. The day's of Emperors and Archdukes were oyer. The other parts had been created Mparate nations according to race and language, but Germany was constantly overshadowing them all.