The sun., 1914-08-16
by Or. WOLF Won sCHIERBRAND.

VIENNA, July 3l.--The ancient Haps-
burg monarchy VIII fight for her life.
She'll die hard IL she does die. Numer-
cally such struggle as this, first and
last, is going TO be history has never
chronicled. But there is now an in
dom.table spirit running all through the
masses OF this people. both halves of the
monarchy.
What little Japan did ten years ago
we can do" said an Austrian Major Of
infantry to me to-day. And he added:
''Do you know how many men We are
prepared to put into the field II need
be? Seven millions"
| looked incredulous He repeated:
Seven Millions, SOC, 900 of the regu-
lar army. 100000 of the first line Of
landsturm and SOC, 900 of the second. All
men UP TO 40 years of age are 10 hold
themselves in readiness II physically
capable. Gradually these seven millions,
II required. Will be under arms. Within
week from now 100000 men will be
concentrated in Bosnia and in ten davs
time 800 900 will be in Galicia. ready
for Russia. From this city of Vienna
alone 20, 900 went to the front last Tues
Ndy anu duOAllti 'NsVV' N'SNtANhN' '-''''
55 900 officers are with the army now,
thousands Of them voluntarily, coming
from civil life and retirement"
repeat the statements of this officer
| without vouching for their correctness.
Indeed, II is next to impossible TO OBJ
tain confirmation or denial Of this and
! other data in competent quarters. The
| watchword given out there is silence.
servin n Midget Beside Her.
Against the resources of the Dual
Monarchy those of Servia are of
course small With the new regiments
J raised in Sew Servia (mostly Mace
| DOMAIN districts) she is able to put
again roundly, a full 100000 men on
their feet rather better than that She
| lost 5OOO0 men, dead or crippled in
the two Balkan wars. With the $4,000
square kilometers and the one and a
half millions of people she acquired
from Turkey she has now an area of
so 900 square kilometers and four and
one half millions OF population, against
Austria -Hungary's 81 100000 OF the
500, 900 there are 25O0O0 men of the
field army. the second half being men
up To 60. insuniciently drilled and armed
men TO be used for guerrilla warfare
in reserve To- maintain communication
invest towns, &c, not for decisive, quick
work Their forces may be further
weakened by the necessity OF over
awng the disaffected Bulgarian pop
ulations in Macedonia.
In small arms and in field artillery the
Scrvans are strong and up to date. A
deficiency, however, which will tell
in the beginning of the campaign Is
their being short OF horses 20, 00C
short. Hungary (whence their horses
camel being closed To them they mus,
get them from Russia. via Rumania.
| Until the very last moment Austria
Hungary believed Servia would yield tc
the ultimatum. AS late as 3, even $3.50
o'clock, Of Saturday afternoon the lead
| ing journals sold extra editions an
nouncing that Servia would eat her
dish OF humble pie, and those extras
were stlll being peddled along the Vienna
boulevards when new blatant voices
offered now extras with the news OF
rejection. of the departure OF Minister
Giesl from Belgrade, the mobilization OF
the entire Servian army and the ngh
OF their Government to Kraguyevatz
nephew OF the old Emperor, Arch
duke Leopold Salvador wired his wifi,
and children, summering in Styria, al
late as 3 l.. NJ that there would be NJ
war. That was two hours after Crown
Prince Alexander OF Scrvla had ac
tually signed the mobilization order.
Put the Blame on Russia.
About those last scenes in Belgrade
Field Marshal Baron Gicsl. the Minister
of Austria Hungary at the Servian capi
tai, said TO me after his return here
"If 1t had not been for direct cncour
agement from Russia, Servia would hav
given in 10 us. The Scrvian Grown
Council was in session all day. Up t,
noon pacific currents prevailed. Durlnl
the afternoon Crown Prince Alcxande
Appeared and in his presence strong evi
dence was produced to show that tn
Servinn army officers would not submi
to the ultmatum, tha, they would rathc
dothrono the dynasty ON top Of tha
I came n 1000 word despatch from 81
Petersburg, and It was the latter whicl