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THE horse: MARXIST : WARSAW 



The horse market of Warsaw is one of the most important in Europe. Situated in 

 one of the richest grazing regions of the Old World, with the added advantage of being 

 close to the horse-using centers of western Europe, Warsaw's market has long been sought 

 by the buj'ers of the continent. Some famous stock farms are to be found among the 

 holdings of the noblemen of Russian Poland, as well as among the possessions of nobles of 

 German and Austrian Poland. 



In size she outranked nearly every na- 

 tion of the continent. Even now Russia 

 alone of the European nations is larger 

 than Poland was at her greatest. In 

 population she stood at the forefront of 

 Europe ; only Russia and Germany today 

 have greater populations than are to be 

 found in the lands that once were Poland ; 

 for unpartitioned Poland had an area 

 of 282,000 square miles, and the lands 

 that once lay within her boundaries now 

 support a population of approximately 

 50 million. In area she was as large as 

 the German Empire, Switzerland, Bel- 

 gium, Holland, and Denmark together : 

 larger than Great Britain, Italy, and 

 Greece combined : larger than Austria- 



Hungary and Servia in one. Within what 

 were her boundaries there dwells a pres- 

 ent population larger than the combined 

 populations of Great Britain and Bel- 

 gium ; larger than those of France, Bel- 

 gium, and Holland together; and match- 

 ing that of Austria-Hungary. 



Poland was three times partitioned, 

 and these partitionings were readjusted 

 between the partitioners by the Congress 

 of Vienna in 181 5. Where the original 

 partitions had given Russia 181,000 

 square miles, Prussia 54,000 square 

 miles, and Austria 45,000 square miles, 

 the reapportionment of the Vienna Con- 

 gress gave 'Russia 220,500, Prussia. 

 26,000, and x\ustria 35,000 square miles 



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