Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-10-06
WOMEN FORCED To
Do HEAVY WORK
WHILE MEN FIGHT
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.)

pany from Venice reads:
According to word received here
from Vienna, the Austrian public is
waiting in dumb patience for some def
mite news as to what is really happen
ing in Galicia and along the Servian
frontier Although there is an uneasy
feeling that affairs are not going well
for Austria, the mass of the people still
pin their faith on Germany, and are
confident that no matter what happens
now, the Germans will eventually save
the situation.
MANY others, however, disguised
with the ambiguous and scanty reports
from official sources, are beginning to
disregard the newspapers altogether.
Ever since it became known that
Russia was making such startling head
way in Galicia, the Vienna newspaper
comments have been most guarded.
The editorials deal chiefly with the
German campaign in western Europe,
thus seeking to divert public attention
from the Austrian reverses at Lemberg
and along the Servian border but the
presence of 10000 Polish refugees from
Galicia, added to the constant arrival
of train loads of wounded has consid-
erably discounted the effects of official
reticence.
Commerce and Industry Paralyzed
Commerce and industry are paral-
yzed throughout the Dual Monarchy
and the stoppage of exports threatens
to ruin some of the largest industries,
notably the sugar trade. Millions OF
pounds Of sugar are sent annually from
Austria to Great Britain, India and
other points abroad Refners are
anxiously endeavoring to find some
means of getting their product to Eng
land by an indirect route. To relieve
the stress of the financial situation the
government has decided to organize a
War Credit Bank, capital of $1,OOO,OQO
besides a number of loan institutions
for advancing money without interest
in order to carry on various Industrial
enterprises.
Numerous suggestions have been
made for boycotting goods coming
from hostile countries, notably Eng
land and France, but they have met
with scanty support in the most infu-
entail commercial circles. The Prague
chamber of commerce refused to en-
dorse such a proposal, saying that it
would be quite useless at the present
moment, besides being dangerous for
Austrian commercial interests later on.
Outside Vienna and Budapest the as
pect of the whole country is lfeless
and apparently denuded of active men,
and presents an appearance of strange
and oppressive quietness. Great fac
tories are completely shut down, fur
naces are out, doors are locked and
not even a Waterman is visible in the
streets. The small towns are deserted,
save for few children here and there,
and there are scarcely any workers in
the fields. The few who may be seen
are chiefly women, and occasionally
old men.
Austrian Women Loading Freights.
THE women are now performing the
most laborious tasks, even to the load
ing of freight cars. Trains are run
ming on most lines on restricted sched-
ules. There are hardly any passen-
gers and solitary soldiers may be
seen guarding stations, bridges or tun-
nels, but bodies of troops, even in
small numbers are rarely seen. All
have gone to the front. Red Cross sta
lions have been set IN in the principal
towns and depots provided with vast
numbers of stretchers are ready to re-
ceive the wounded. The well-meant
hospitality of the public in supplying
soldiers with food, delicacies and Gig
arettes. is said to have had an unfor-