Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-19
: EUES WINER TAGBLATT, vi
enna.-The total personnel of
the German Army, which in
the year 1914 comprised 797,-


fixed quota Of 100000, imposed by the
peace treaties. The marine contingent,
formerly consisting of 200 men, now
totals only $4,000. The cost of MAIN
tanning the army in 1914 was 1927, 49,
GA marks annually. The present cost
OF this arm Of the service is sos, 000,-
900 marks. In 1914 the navy cost asa
ACC, 900 marks a year. Now the yearly
expense is 1874, 1874 900 marks. In France,
within the last year, 1929-1930 the cost
of the army increased GOO, 000, 900 marks,
q significant aggrandizement in view of
the fact that the total German military
expense did not reach the amount of
the added army OUTLAWS in the French
republic.
French Alarmed at
British Army Budget.
Cologne Gazette.-German Army and
Navy estimates for this year are less
| than In years Immediately preceding,
but even these reductions do not pro-
tect us from suspicion of our neigh
bors, who consider 500, 900 900 marks too
much for us to spend on our military
protection, while British Army expendi-
| lures for the year are computed at
$40 900, 900 marks It is strange that
the British authorities, however, see
! nothing invidiouS in this comparison. 1t
is the French press and the officers OF
| the French Army an army spending
already twice as much as we, that are
| feigning alarm. If army expense is any
criterion of war menace, then the prep
/ arations of France are twice as threat
ening as those OF Germany. And while
France and England are building large
navies our naval expense will be 29,-
| 000, 900 marks less this fiscal year than
| last
Horses Abandoned
| To Die.
| La Nacion, Buenos Aires.--Miserable
and emaciated, with their eyes lachry-
NOSE and timid, moving furtively with
head bowed, as If still dreading the
blows of their cruel masters; distressed
with collar and saddle gals and tor
mented by flies--such are the tngredi-
ents of the spectacle presented by the
| five forlorn horses which now for some
months have been haunting the outer
| stretches of the Avenida Centenarto, in
| one of the mos aristocratic quarters of
| the city. Surely this is the most lu-
| gubriouS and humiliating infamy to be
observed in this capital!
These five old horses, no longer able
to work, have been abandoned in the
| thoroughfare by their constituencies
masters, who considered 1t more con-
venient thus to turn them out to die
rather than to terminate their lives
| humanely or to care for them in the
remaining brief period of their exist
ence These poor animals live, or rather
merely procrastinate their deaths from
day to day, suffering all the pangs OF
hunger and thirst, nibbling the scanty
vegetation they can reach, devoured by
avoracious insects and belabored by pit
Hess boys.
If none Of those who are constant
witnesses of this suffering are willing
to take measures to end 1t, then surely
the authorities should terminate what
is not only a poignant af1liction to the
hearts of all beholders. but also both
disgrace and a moral menace to the
community.
Horses
Increasing IN London.
The Daily Mail, LondOn.-Strange
as it may seem, the number of horses
is increasing in London. Last year
there were 1900; now there are more
than 10000. spontaneously, the num-
Der of taxicabs is decreasing. The au-
thorities are restricting the number OF
cabs to 5000 figure much reduced
compared with that Of last year.
| bee Culture
! PopuIar Chinese Industry.