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Show PEOPLE TO DECIDE. Today tho first of the many plebiscites plebi-scites growing out of the war in Kuropo and the application of the principle? of self-determination, that is, the riht of peoples to dispose of thcn;yt;dvo5, will take place in the grand duchy of Luxemburg. The people of tlie grand duchy are to decide whether they wish to maintain or suppress the ruling dynasty and Tvli?thyr to conclude- an economic arrangeineut with France or with Belgium. Prior to tho war Luxemburg was a mere tributary to Germany, although nominally independent and having diplomatic dip-lomatic relations wi'h fortdu r-ountrics. The fatatistica of mining and agriculture, agricul-ture, whir-h form the two tfreat industries indus-tries of the grand duchy, Vmto included in tho German empire's liguro. The Luxemburgcrs quickly rrrrn crod from any attachment thy may lmo had for Germany j-oun at'ter the outbreak ol the v. ht, lien t!-e Germans overran tl.t: iTrand duchy and appropiiat.-d everything every-thing in siu'lit for the b -n- ill of tar imperial anviies. The people of th" grand duchy carried their a, er-ion to all t hings German to the 1-Nigt h of 'forcing tli abdioaion t-f tlie grand duehes-f Marie Adtdaid-', jmnidi.-.5'' !y after the arrniriee v.at Mgn-'d, bi caue tlfy did not. eon.id' r h'-r attitude Mil'-ficient Mil'-ficient ly anti-Germ an. Tli: pr, Tit grand iJ''hc.c' ( harlott, her fd-tr. L'ntd quite recently the grand duclsy was cm en pied by American t roop. No pro v s ion is made in the plebiscite plebi-scite as to tho fuMire form of th-" ernrncnt of I, u:fiiiburg in the even', the voters (Jefrminti to fnpprrs- tho dtia-ly. Latterly ther" has born a MtronfT ninvcuunt in faor of a republic. repub-lic. J is probable t'lat L-iX'-miuir will remain an n u on f-rnous pro vi :i.,n und' r t no immediate influence of the nation with w h i'di i--hv r Vr ! n to t n ! c r into an econftm ic ( ojnpa ct . T h grand duchy is not an i tnporf a n t 'fd i ' i-'al d ; -vision, as independent nations go, but its d Upon it ion of it s f lit are will be w at-'hed with a cu riom i a t c r . f r all tlot. |