Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-09
ALSO DREAM Of
GREATER POWER
But 1t win Take More Than
Peace Congress to Accom-
piiSh Work

New rstions-and old ones too
dream OF greater power with each
passing day.
Unless the peace congress gets
down 20 the business Of settling with
Germany End fixing the boundaries
for people set free, it will take more
then q n congress to accomplish
the task.
Poland IL born of the war. Poland
was once u mighty nation. She had
been iGgglod by European powers till
nothing remained but a national con-
sciousness desire to be a nation
and o few subject provinces.
But Polish ambition is growing,
and, with q government established
and an army in the field. she looks to
the boundaries. that once were hers.
Hungary is making vigorous pro-
test against Polish advances in Gall
ella. Germany objects to claims to
Posen. and Danzig. but these objec-
lions count for little. Ukrainiaus and
the Polish empire, contest Polish adj
vance on the east; the former in
Galicia, the latter about Wilma.
The region In which the Polish
people are in greatest numbers COM
priscs 10000 square miles in West
RUSSIA. Austrian Galicia and Posen,
West Prussia and Silesia, but to the
cast. 20 the north and to the west.
over an area of 400, 900 square miles.
Polish are mixed with non-Polish
people, so that 1t is hard to tell which
are in greater numbers.
II is this tina makes It hard to fix
the boundaries of the new Poland.
Russian Poland, before the war,
had a population of eleven and q half
million in it's $4,000 square miles. OF
which "A per cent. were Polish, while.
In the Lithuanian provinces OF Kovo,
Grodno and wilma and in White Rus
STA md the western provinces OF the
Ukraine but seven per cent. OF the
26. 1000. 600 were Poles.
Iii Posen, Germany, 81 per cent. OF
the population were Poles: In West
Prussia, 35 per cent. In East Prussia.
Is per cent, and in Silesia, 2S per
cent. These provinces form Prussian
Poland, with a population of 10000
600. SO per e Polish.
Galicia and Austrian Silesia form
Austrian Poland. the former 40 per
Polish. the latter "a per cent.
The population was 5000 900.
In Russian Poland the Polish form
TIRE ~aTistocracy and the ~peasantry or
the country. while the middle class,
the tradesmen. are largely JEWISH and
In L~ithuania. White Russia, and
a large part of the Ukraine the upper
classes arc almost entirely Polish.
wilma. over which Polish II Lithua-
are fighting. is nearly so per
-ent. Polish. and Minsk. on the fur
Her limits OF the old Polish empire,
IS rs per cent. Polish.
In Prussian Poland the Poles are
distributed through all classes of SO
'iety, chiefly in the country districts,
vhich are 20 per cent. Polish. But
Ire city OF Posen. where Germans and
,oifsh now clash, ig more thar half
POLISH.
The Poles of Silesia. mostly a
ATS and liners. are Just awakening
0 the cid race cors--sSssasss
Wests -rrJfa Is the ancient east
-piish government. m Poles arc 4
~ Greatest numbers In all ranks, ex-
ccpt business, where the Jews arc
most numerous.
Eastern Galicia, where Pole and
Tkrainian now clash. was ruled by
the Poles for more than 800 years.
and Lemhorg. the capital city, Is now
m ore than half Polish in population.
while but ten per cent are U~kraininns.
Poles and Ukrainians are in nearly
equal numbers In Galicia, but In OPP
posite ends of the province.
In the above map all territory cut
side of hat ruled diagonally formed
the old Polish empire when 1t was Mt
its height. Area eross-ruled Is that
in which the Polish race predomi-
mates, and this. with the up-and-down
ruled district. has been considered the
territory OF new Poland as II would be
fixed by the peace congress.