The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-04-15
Aarch of History Causes Gotha
= Publication Considerable
Trouble.
PLACES EX' BEFORE KAISER
Some Strange Entries in Latest Edi.
tion as Result Of the War-can't
Keep Up With Affairs in Fin
land, Poland and Ukraine.

manach de Gotha. In peace times this
compendium of statistical data con.
cerning princes and potentates and
their dominiops went to press about
the end Of October, when its informa-
ton was supposed to hold good for
another year, and it generally did,
barring some coup d'etat or other in
South America.
4 Now, however, it's issue Of 1919.
Dhich went to the printers in Decem-
Der, is affected in several important
respectsoby sudden Developments in
Evolving many Of the former ruling
houses of Europe.
Amusing to students Of Germany's
eastern border policy is the naive pref.
atory remark that "the editors regret
that, after having prepared three new
articles on Finland. Poland and the
Ukraine, they were obliged to cancel
all three, owing to the change in the
course of events"
Two Important Changes.
In other words, Prince Frederick
Charles of Hesse, brother-in-law of
the former German emperor, will
never seat himself upon the throne of
Finland, and there is to be no Prus-
sian predominance In Poland and the
i Ukraine. =
The downfall of the houses Of Ho-
henzollern. and Hapsburg has not
caused the compilers Of the almanach
much racking of brains. The prefix
EEK" is apparently held to be sufficient
to define the present status Of William
III and Charles I, although the former
is still credited with his full So titles
and the latter is still styled, among
other things, "King Of Jerusalem,
Prince Of the Trentino and Lord of
Trieste"
Much the same treatment is given to
the score Of German princes, and
,princeaings who abdicated. They ap-
pear in the almanach as they were
but for the eek"
Democratic infiltration in Germany
has set in from the top, instead OF
from the bottom. For although the ad.
ministrative branches of the German
government are filled with the, usual
array Of excellencies, professors and
councillors, yet at the. head Of that
government stand the names of Ebert
Scheidemann, Dittman, Landsberg and
Barth. Nobody is supposed to care
|nbout their Christian names.
s. The German national ,colors are still
given as black, white and red, and the
war flag still blazons the Prussfan
eagle.
This year, provisional govern
ments abound. There is Poland, de-
scribed in the aimanach as, "an ancient
Kingdom" whose "chief" is General
Pilsudski. Finland, formerly grand
duchy." has no president, but General
Mannerheim is the present regent"
Puzzle About Ukraine.
The Ukraine is described as ga con.
stitutional monarchy on republican
basis" with General Skoropadski as
hetman. A footnote, however, explains
that according to news received De.
cember Is. 1918, the hetman has alb
dice he'd and the power is in the hands
of a directorate consisting of Win
nitshenko, Petliura, Schwetz and An
dreievaki."
Russia, or to give it its modern
name, the "Federative Socialistic Re-
public of Russian Soviets," at whose
head Lenine .4Vladimir Oulianoff) and
Trotzky Ueon D. Bronstein) figure, is
in chaotic state as far as it's inter.
nal administration is concerned. The
almanach enumerateS the eleven ''more
or less independent" states into
which the empire has fallen, as fol-
ilows: Poland, Lithuania, Baltic
Eates (Courland, 'Livonia, Esthonia,
Finland, Ukraine, Bessarabia (occu-
pied by Roumania), Georgia, northern
Caucasus, territory of the Don and
territory of Astrakhan, Turkestan and
Siberia.
Vanished is the pomp and panoply
of the sonorous sounding names of
the Russian aristocracy that once filed
the higher administrative posts in the
old empire. The seven members of
the council of commissaries of the
people" are Immediately followed by
the dignitaries of the Greek Catholic
church. If there are any excellencies
or other functionaries or officials in
present-day Russia, the almanach does
not give them.
As for the diplomatic corps at Petro-
grad, all the ambassadors and minis
ters, except one from Spain, are sig
nifcantly designated as 'absent."
One curiosity is that Albania shares
with San Marino the distinction OF
having a government indicated by
blanks.
Twas Dogs Lite.
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