The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-08-14
GIANTS WAR
WITH PIGMIES
Servia's Population About
Equal to London's.
Area Less Than That Of Pennsyl-
vania Russia Largest
Of All.

Servia. before the Balkan War,
had a population of 2.911,700 and
an area of 1879 squar miles; the
war added 1924 square miles to
her territory and 1,636,290 people
to her inhabitants, giving her to-
tai present area of $4,000 square
miles and a population of 4,514,976,
which is about that of London Tin
GLIDING metropolitan and city police
districts). The area is about four
ffths that of Pennsylvania.
Belgrade has S9,S76 people; Nish.
24.949; Monastei Gin the new terri
tory, 1856. Four-fifths of the
people are illiterate.
The Greek Church is the orthodox
religious establishment. Agricul-
ture is the chief industry. There
are about 900 miles of railway. Or
binary roads are poor. In the Bal
kan War Servia had 100000 men in
the field within three weeks, and
4O5, 900 ready for service inside of
four months. King Peter /. recent
ly turned over the sovereignty to his
second son, Alexander (born 1889,
but resumed it on the outbreak of
hostilities.
Austria Hungary comprises the
Austrian empire, the kingdom of
Hungary and the territory of Bos-
MIA and Herzegovina. Vienna is the
Austrian capital, Budapest the Hun
garian, and delegations of so mem
bers each, elected by the Austrian
and Hungarian Parliaments. meet
alternately at the two capitals, the
Emperor-King, Francis Joseph, re-
siding in Vienna.
Franz Josef, born August Is, 1880
became Emperor of Austria Decem-
Der 2, 1S4S, and King of Hungary
June s, 1867. The area of the mon
archy is 261,241 square miles
Texas would take it in. 1t is mar
velous cosmopolitan country. In a
total population of 51,390,223 about
100000 speak German, 10000
900 speak Hungaiia and 100000
speak the Polish tongue. Among
the other common languages used
are Bohemian, Ruthenian, Croatian,
Rumanian, Moravian and Slovak.
There are 33.952.36S Roman Cath
olics. Vienna has a population of
2,O31.49s; Budapest has SS0.371
people. There are 30,121 miles of
railway, chiefly State operated. On
a war basis Austria can put
100000 men in the field. Bosnia
Herzegovina has an area of 1902
square miles and 1.S9S,O44 people.
Occupied since 1878, it was annexed
in 1903. 1t contains $4,000 Mo-
hammedans.
Russia comprising European Rus
STA, Poland, the Caucasus, Siberia,
Asiatic Russia and Finland) covers
S,394,O1S square miles, with pop
ulation of 167,OS4,2OO. The area
is greater than that of the United
States and all her dependencies plus
France and all her colonies. 1t is
twice the size of China. but it is only
two-thirds the size of the whole
British Empire. st. Petersburg has
1,911,4O inhabitants; Moscow, l.
5O5,5OO Warsaw, $4,000; Odessa.
49S,1OO; Kiev. 446,SO0.
The mobiles have twice as much
land as the peasants. The Douma.
whose powers are largely a figment
of the imagination, has 422 members
at salary of $4,000 each a year.
The Gar, Nicholas H., was bora
May IS. 1868. His sickly heir,
Alexis, was born August ~, l9c4.
The Cars mother is Queen Alexan-
dra's sister. so that he and George
". are first cousins.
Germany consists OF twenty-five
federated States and an imperial ter
ritory (Reischland). The area Is
2OS,S25 square miles Excluding col
onies) and the population has grown
from 24.s33.000 in 1916 to s4,s25,-
ss3 in 1910. An estimate for June
80, 1918. gives 67.0s2.o0o inhabi-
tants.
In 1910 there were 1853 Amer
leans in Germany. 1889 British.
1s.l40 French and 1887 Rus
SLAMS. Berlin had a,07i.267 inhsb-