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Photograph by A. Frankl 



CHILDREN OX THE BANKS OF THE NOGAT RIVER I EAST PRUSSIA 



The Nogat separates the territory of the Free City of Danzig from East Prussia, where 

 a plebiscite was held recently. The East Prussians voted to cast their lot with the Republic 

 of German}- rather than give allegiance to Poland, and these children are among those 



celebrating the announcement of the result. 



battlements, as well as those of its senti- 

 nel islet, Helgoland, have been dismantled 

 at German expense. 



AUSTRIA-HUXGARY DISAPPEARS AS A 

 POLITICAL STATE 



By the Treaty of St. Germain, signed 

 September 10, 19 19, in the Stone Age 

 Room of the chateau at St. Germain-en- 

 Laye, a suburb of Paris, the decadent 

 Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary, 

 composed of a heterogeneous group of 

 discordant nationalities, passed into his- 

 tory, and from the wreckage are emerg- 

 ing the republics of Austria, Hungary, 

 and Czechoslovakia, while large areas of 

 the territory once controlled by the Haps- 

 burgs have passed under the sovereignty 

 of the kings of Italy, Rumania, and Jugo- 

 slavia. 



Before the World War the Dual Mon- 

 archy boasted an area of 260,000 square 

 miles and a population of 50.000,000. 

 The area of Austria proper was 134,000 

 square miles, with a population of 29,- 



000.000. By the Treaty of St. Germain, 

 the Austrian Republic becomes an im- 

 poverished state of 32,000 square miles 

 (smaller than the State of Maine), with 

 a population not exceeding 6,500.000, 

 nearly a third of whom are crowded into 

 the destitute capital, Vienna. 



The only plebiscite district provided 

 for in the St. Germain Treaty was that 

 of the Klagenfurt district, which lies on 

 the border of Croatia, now a part of the 

 new Serb-Croat-Slovene State. By a 

 substantial majority, the inhabitants have 

 voted to remain with Austria. 



By its loss of Transylvania, with 22.- 

 000 square 'miles and nearly 3,000,000 in- 

 habitants, to Rumania ; of Croatia, Sla- 

 vonia, Dalmatia, and portions of Banat 

 to Jugo-Slavia ; and of some 25.000 

 square miles and 3,500.000 inhabitants in 

 Slovakia to Czechoslovakia, Hungary has 

 been reduced from 125,000 square miles 

 and more than 20,000,000 subjects to 36,- 

 000 square miles, with 8,000.000 people. 



The treatv bv which the Kinsfdom of 



