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Army (U S See UNITED STATES)

U. S. (See UNITED STATES, 1922-23). 1922-23). an instrument used in the measurement ATMOMETER OR ATMIDOMETER, of evaporation. of evaporation.

Few countries re- AUSTRALIA. Few countries redepression and confusion which followed the World War as did Australia. The ment became the encouragement of immigration to help in the labor of developing the country. An agreement was made with the British Government to assist immigration from the British Isles and another was entered into with with Italy to immigration from the British Isles and up unsettled Australian lands. The excess of arrivals over departures in the ten-year period 1911-1921 amounted to only 149,919, while in spite of bonuses 1860 to half of that figure in the later period. The total population of Aus- AUTO-INTOXICATION over 1911. The Australian federal elec- tions of December, 1922, gave the Labor being an increase of about 20 per cent over 1911. The Australian federal elections of December, 1922, gave the Labor Party the largest number of seats in the new House of Representatives. Labor Party, 29, a gain of four seats; National Party, 27, a loss of eleven; Liberal and Country Parties, 19, a gain of seven seats. Premier Hughes resigned February 2, 1923, to permit the formation of a coalition government supported by the Nationalists and the Country Party. He was succeeded by Stanley M. Bruce, former commonwealth treasurer. economic conditions threatened the coneconomic conditions threatened the con- Chancellor in May, made a round of in 1922. Dr. Ignatius Seipl, appointed Chancellor in May, made a round of visits to the capitals of Czecho-Slovakia, these countries. An appeal to the League of Nations, however, brought about a plan of financial relief (September to obtain a loan guaranteed by France, by which Austria was enabled to obtain a loan guaranteed by France, England, Italy, and Czecho-Slovakia.

The plan involved control of disbursements by a finance commission under the League, the guarantor states undertaking to respect the sovereignty, political ing to respect the sovereignty, political independence, and territorial integrity of Austria, while the latter bound herself all nations with claims against Austria, including the United States of America, agreed to waive them for twenty years. Dr. Zimmerman, former mayor of Rotterdam, was appointed Commissioner General of Austria in behalf of the League. Relief work on a large scale continued to be necessary. Up to March, 1922, the American Relief Administration had furnished meals in excess of 200 million to Austrian children. Beside assisting 145 local organizations in their work, it was feeding directly 175,000 children and almost 20,000 others, chiefly students, teachers, members of the hard-pressed professional classes, and the sick.