The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-23

ognized by certain of the powers, eS- pecia1ly Great Britain. It's area IS estimated at 275, ,000 square miles and it's population at about 100000.
 A part of the Archangel province was set up as an independent gov
 ernment under the title Of the Mur- man region. The population of both North Russia and the Murman region
 is composed largely of Lapps, Films and Samoyedes. Immediately south
 of the White Sea and on the eastern border of Finland the Republic of Eastern Karelia was established in
 May, 1919, and authorized to create a
 Constituent Assembly to determine whether the area shall form an alli- ance with Finland or Russia The
 area of this republic is about 6s,oo0 square miles and the population ap-
 proximately 250.000.
 In the southeastern section of Rus sia, with it's considerable sprink1ing of Tatar stock intermingled with Sla- vic blood. a half-doen small republics
 sprang into existence; the Tauride Republic, including the Crimean Pen insula, with an area of approximately 23,000 square miles and a population of 1,S00, ,000, declared itself independ- ent of Russia in March, 1918; the Kuban Republic, just east of the Sea of Azov, with an area of S6,00o square miles and a population of 3 ,- 900, ,0o0, declared itself independent l in November, 1919; the Terek Repub- lie, at the southeast of Kuban and ex- ! tending north across to the Caspian i Sea, with an area of 2S,000 square
 miles and @ population of 1,S0O,- l 900, declared itself Independent in l September, 1918; the Republic of 1 Georgia, at the extreme eastern end l of the Black Sea-. with an area Oi
 10000 square miles and a population 1 of 2,500,000, was declared an inde- pendent State in January, 1918; the 1 Don Republic, lying at the northeast 1 of the Sea of Azov and fronting upor 1 that sea, with an area of -63, ,00j 1 square miles and a population of 4 ,. 000,000, declared itself tndependen
 in January, 1918; east of the Caspian 1 the Turkestan area, consisting O
 about 400,000 square miles and with 1 population of 6,5O0,000, was in Jan 1 uary, 1918, established as an inde 1 pendent government under militar, l control; north of the Caspian, tht Tartar -Bashlir Republic was estab l lished in October, 1918, it's area being estimated at 175,000 square miles ant | it's population at 9,O0O,000; the gov l ernment is under military control
 l Passing across the Urals into Si
 beria, the independent Republic O Siberia was proclaimed in December 1917, with it's capital at Tomsk, ant
 a Siberian Duma, of 30 members wa 1 opened.
 Later, however, it was decided fol
 the time being to concentrate al i power in the hands of a single in dividual, Admiral Kolchak. Nc statement is made as to the actua
 area claimed by the Republic of Si
 beria, though presumably it would include a large part of the area O Siberia, stated at 4,832,ooo squar
 miles, and a population of 10, ,37S, ,00O At the extreme northeast of tn Siberian area, a separate government l designated as the Yakutsk Republic was established in May. 1918, witt
 a military government, and an are'
 estimated at about 100000 squar, miles and a population of 100000. While no definite action has ye been taken by the Peace Conferenc