THE NEW MAP OF EUROPE 



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Photograph from Frederick Simpich 



SELLING CHICKENS IN THE STREETS OE BUCHAREST, CAPITAL OE RUMANIA 



Rumania has become a major power of southeastern Europe, as a result of its allotment of 

 Austro-Hungarian and Russian territory. 



brought to the attention of the Council 

 of the League of Nations, which has ap- 

 pointed a commission to make an inquiry 

 and submit recommendations as a basis 

 of amicable settlement. 



THREE INEANT REPUBLICS ON THE BALTIC 



The three Baltic States of Esthonia, 

 Latvia, and Lithuania, fragments of dis- 

 integrating Russia, have declared their 

 independence under republican forms of 

 government — Esthonia and Lithuania in 

 February, 191 8, and Latvia in November 

 of the same year. 



All three have been recognized by most 

 of the European powers, but not by the 

 United States. Their boundaries are as 

 yet extremely indefinite and their respect- 

 ive territorial aspirations overlap in many 

 places. 



The frontiers, as defined tentatively on 

 the accompanying map, accord to Estho- 

 nia an area about equal to that of New 

 Hampshire and Massachusetts combined, 

 with Latvia half again as large, and 

 Lithuania the largest of the trio, with an 



area in excess of the combined areas of 

 New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu- 

 setts, and Rhode Island. 



THE RE-CREATION OE POLAND 



For many decades "The Three Parti- 

 tions of Poland" * has been a text upon 

 which historians and new-school diplo- 

 matists have preached against the per- 

 nicious practices of the "Old Order" in 

 Europe — an order which conceived peo- 

 ples and their home-lands to be mere 

 chattels, to be exchanged, bartered, or 

 purloined by kings and princes. It was 

 inevitable, therefore, that under the 

 promised "New Order," inaugurated 

 upon the conclusion of the World War, 

 Poland should be one of the first sover- 

 eign States to be re-created. 



As reconstituted, the Republic of Po- 

 land, with its seat of government in the 

 ancient capital of Warsaw, derives its 

 territory from the three powers which 



* See "Partitioned Poland," by William 

 Joseph Showalter, in the National Geographic 

 Magazine for January, 1915. 



