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generation; the same holds for Eussian 

 Poland and the Baltic provinces. 

 Russia has better claims to reconstruct 

 an autonomous Poland and annex parts 

 of Austria. 



We may hope in the interest of fu- 

 ture peace that the map of Europe will 

 not be considerably altered. The chief 

 changes are likely to be in Africa where 

 apart from the English and Dutch in 

 the south there are no real colonies, 

 only exploiting ' ' protectorates. ' ' Great 

 Britain controls nearly 2,800,000 

 scpiare miles, France some 2,300,000 

 square miles, Germany nearly 1,000,000 

 square miles; Belgium, Portugal and 

 Italy possess large areas. If Germany 

 loses in the war, Great Britain is almost 

 certain to seize German East Africa to 

 control the path from the Cape to 

 Cairo. France, Belgium, Italy and 

 Portugal will probably increase their 



holdings at the cost of Germany. If 

 Germany should dominate Europe, it 

 will seek to control Africa and to in- 

 crease instead of losing its possessions 

 in the far east. It will aim to supplant 

 Great Britain as a world-wide empire. 

 But the time has probably gone by 

 when Germany can establish colonies as 

 Great Britain did. It may rule subject 

 races as Great Britain does in India, 

 but it can not supply men for colonies 

 such as Canada and the Australian 

 commonwealth. In 1850 German-born 

 residents of the United States outnum- 

 bered a hundredfold those born in 

 Austria-Hungary, Russia and Italy 

 together, now the immigration from 

 each of these nations is ten times that 

 from Germany. There are some 13,000,- 

 000 Germans in North and South 

 America, but the total emigration from 

 Germany to the United States has de- 



From the X. Y. Evening Post. 



BOUNDARIES OF CENTRAL EUROPE AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF RACES. 



