Show SMALLEST OF ALL NATIONS Tavo palo an laland benr sardinia claims claim the distinction I 1 some of the encyclopedias and many ne newspapers shapers have commented on the 6 fallest independent country in the world and have given the credit to either andorra or can marino A late issue of the westminster gazette takes these authorities to task declaring that they are nils mistaken mista talen ken as to the government which can lay claim to being the smallest independent territory on en the globe and says that the position poi I 1 belongs t to 0 oralo an islet off the northwest coast of sardinia its size is three miles long and three broad and aad its population of a mile t M n umbers numbers exactly fifty five soula 1836 to 1882 the islet was governed govi I 1 from by one pa Pao loto who had all the authority 0 of f a kin king g but when he died he advised the inhabitants latter year in the habitants babi tants to form A an republic which all the adult islanders done W was have votes vote with men equally luallY ec women a president IS six yelm years and every the nominally elected for that period island Is claimed by italy but no DO attempt is 11 made lade to exercise any control island of from the near from there them or sardinia des deseret eret news |