Republican farmer., 1919-03-14
EUROPEAN DATA MERE CONJECTURE
Downfall of Ruling Mon archs and Provisional Form of Governments Present Accurate Statis- tics.

Paris. March 7.---(Correspondenc of The Associated Press) )---The swift march of history which has reduced isting works of reference about Flu ropea.n state of affairs has been too rapid for the old AIInanach de Gotha- In peace times, this compendium of statistical data, concerning princes and potentates and their donintons went to press about the end of Octo- Der, when it's information was sup posed to hold good for another year, and it generally did, barring some coup de'etat or other in South Amer tca.
 Now, however, it's issue for 1919, which went to the printers in Deem ber, is affected in several important respects by sudden developments tn- voIving many of the former ruling houses of Europe.
 Amusing to students of German s eastern border policy is the naive predatory 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
 
 Charles of Hesse. obrother-in-law of the former German emperor, will never seat himself upon the throne of Finland. and there is to be no Prus- sian predoninance in Poland and the Ukraine.
 The downfall of the houses of Ho- henzollern and Hapsburg has not caused the compiIers of the AInanach much racldng of brains. The prefix ''ex'' is apparently held to be sufh- cient to define the present satus of William II. and Charles L, although the former is still credited with his full 5 titles and the latter IS still styled among other things 'SKing of Jerusalem, Prince of the Trentino and Lord of Trieste"
 Much the same treatment is given to the score of German princes and princelingS who a1btlicated. They ap- pear in the almanac as they were but for the lex"
 Democratic infi1trafion in Germany has set in from the top, instead of from the bottom For although the administrative branches of the Ger man 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, Djdtmann, Landsberg and Earth. Nobody is sup posed to care about their Christian names
 The German national colors are still given as black. white and red, and the war flag still blazo the Prussian eagle.
 This year, provisional govern ments abound There is Poland, de- scHbed in the almanac as .fan an
 
 era1 Pilsudskf. Finland, formerly General NTannerhetn is the present regent"
 The Ukraine is described as "a con- st1tutionaI monarchy on a republican basis" with General Sl1oropadsli as Hetman. A foot note, however, ex- plains that according to news re- ceived Dec. 15, 1918, the Hetman has ajbdicated and the power is in the hands of a directorate consisting of Winnitshenko, Petliura, Schwetz and AndTeievaki."
 Russia or, to give 1t its modern name. the "Federative Socialistic Republic of Russian Soviets,'' at whose head Lenine CVIa1:lnir Oulia- nof) and Trotzky Qeon D. Bron- stein) figure, is in a chaotic state as
  concerned. The A1rnanach enumer- ates the II more or less Independent states into which the empire has fallen, as follows: Poland; Lithua- mia; Baltic states (Courland, Livonia, Esthonia); Finland; Ukraine; Bessar- aJbia. Occupied by RouInania); Geor- gia: Northern Caucasus; Territory of the Don and territory of Astraknan; Tu-kestan; Siberia
 Vanished is the ponap and panoply of the sonorous sounding names of the Russian aristocracy tl1at once filled the higher administrative posts in the old empire. The seven mem bers of the Council of Commissaries of the People are immediately fol- lowed by the dignitaries of the Greek Catholic church. If there are any exee1lencies or other functionarics or officials in present day Russia, the AIInanach does not give them.