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

One of the largest and earliest of the groups establishing themselves
 as independent governments was the
 Republic of Ukrainia, occupying the
 southwestern sectien-.of Russia and
 fronting upon the Black Sea, with
 Odessa as it's principal port, It de-
 clared it's indepenuence in November,
 1917, under the title of the 'sUkrain-
 ian Peoples Republic" but it's boun- diaries are still somewhat in dispute,
 especially with the neighboring Re-
 public of Poland, which was formed
 in part from Russian and in part
 from German and Austrian territory.
 The Ukrainian Republic has, so far
 as can be determined. an area of about 215, ,0oO square miles and a pop
 ulation of approximately so,ooo.ooo.
 It has large part of the area known
 as the "Black Soil District and its
 agricultural and mineral possibilities
 are important. Immediately north of
 the Ukrainian Republic is a group of
 people known as the White Russians,
 who established themselves in May,
 1919, as the Republic of White Rus
 sia, with an area estimated at 140,-
 900 square miles and a population
 of approximately 5,000,000.
 Imm ediately west of the Republic
 of White Russia and extending to the Baltic another new republic was es-
 tab1ished in April, 1918, under the
 title of the Republic of Lithuania, with an area of approximately S0,- 900 square miles and a population estimated at about 10,000,000. North west of Lithuania the Lettish people occupying the peninsula lying be- tween the Gulf of Riga and the Baltic oLoIf Of T afITfo (also written Latvia), with an area of about 5000 square nifes and a pop ulation of approximately 1,500, 600 Inme diate1y north of Lithuania the little Republic of Courland, with an area of 10000 square miles and a population of S00,0OO, was declared 1 an independent Government in April 1918.
 Next north of Courland and fronting upon the Gulf of Riga, 8 part of the Baltic, the Republic ot Livonia was declared in April, 1918 with an area of about 1000 square
 miles and a population of approxi- mately 1,6O0,000. The territory inn mediately north of G1vonia declared 1 itself in April, 1918, as the inde- pendent Republic of Esthonia. Ii fronts not only upon the Baltic, but 1 on the Gulf of Finland, the entrance 1 to the harbor of Petrograd. Its area 1 is stated at about 1900 square miles 1 and its population at 1,750,000. Stil | further north, the people of the area i ing known as Finland declared i themselves in December, 1917; an in dependent republic, with 8 population | af about 3,500,O00 and an area o1 l 125,000 square miles, extending
 northward to within a short distance l of the Arctic Ocean.
 1 The Arctic frontage of Russia ly' 1 ing immediately east of the -northerr part of Finland was established as 2 military district by the Allied Power: l on July ', 1918, with a military gov ernment, and has an area of approxi mately 35,o00 square miles and { ! population estimated at about 100, 1 900. Further east on the Arctic front i age the greater part of the former 1 Russian province of Archangel wa: ] established under the, title of the Re i public of North Russia, with Nichola! | Tchaikovsky as it's head, and its ex i tstence as a separate government rec