Show TOO SW SWIFT I 1 T FOR F R OLD ALMANAC march of history causes gotha publication considerable trouble placed TV EX BEFORE KAISER some borne stran strange go entries in latest edl tion as result of the war warrant cant keep up with affairs in fin land poland and ukraine paris the swift march of history which has reduced to wastepaper waste paper value most of the existing works of reference about european state affairs has been too rapid for the old al manach de gotha in peace times hales this compendium of statistical data concerning princes and potentates and their dominions went to press about the ho end of october when its information was supposed to hold good for another year and it generally did barring some coup or other ln la south america now however its issue of 1010 which went to tho the printers in december Is affected in several important respects by sudden developments involving matiy many of the former ruling houses of europe amusing to students of germanys germanas Germ anys eastern border policy Is the naive prefatory remark that the editors regret that after having prepared three new articles on finland poland and tho the ukraine they were obliged to cancel nil all three owing to the change in the course of events two important changes jn in other words prince frederick charles of giesse brother ln in law of tho the former german emperor will never sent himself upon the throne thron of f finland and there Is to be no aru prussian s predominance in poland and the ukraine the downfall of tile houses of no and has not caused the compilers of the al manach much racking of brains the prefix ex Is apparently held to be sufficient lelent to 0 o define the present status of william 11 II and charles 1 I although the former Is still credited with ills his full 53 titles and the latter Is still styled among other things lings ti ning king of jerusalem prince of the trentino and lord of trieste much the same treat treatment meni Is given to the score of german princes and princ elings 10 who lo abdicated they appear in the al manach as they were but for tile the ex democratic infiltration in germany tins has set in from tile the top instead of from the bottom for although the administrative branches of tho german government anro filled with tho the usual array of excellencies professors sars and councilors councillors counci lors yet at the head of that government stand the names of H isbert bert bell aldema nn dettman Dl DIt twan landsberg and barth nobody 1 Is supposed to care about their christian names the german national colors colora are still given as a dlack white and red and the war flog flag still ll 11 blazonin the prussian engle eagle this year provisional governments abounds abound there to Is poland described in the al almana manaCh cb ns as nn an ancient kingdom whose climet cl ilet Is general formerly grand duchy has baa no president but medemi Cie Deral Mauner helm Is 1 the present regent puzzle about ukraine the ukraine to la described as a constitutional mo monarchy anarchy on a republican basis with general ail ft hetman A footnote however explains that according to news recel veC december 15 1918 1018 the hetman has abdicated and the power Is ie la in the hands bands of a directorate consisting of win nit Pet llara und and an levaki russia Ilna sla or to give it its modern modem name the federative republic of rus russian 8 lan soviets nt at who whose head lenine vladimir OnU anoH lanoff aud and leon D bronstein figure Is in a chaotic state as far as its luler inter annl adult Is concerned alie alinan enumerates the eleven more or less lefia independent states into which the empire has fallen as follows poland lithuania baltic bourla courland nd livonia esthonia Esth onla finland ukraine Bes sarabia occupied by Itou mania georgia northern caucasus territory of the don and territory of astrakhan turkestan Turk estan and siberia SIbel ln vanished Is the pomp and panoply of the sonorous sounding names or of alio aristocracy that once filled the higher administrative posts in the old empire the seven keren bembera of at the be council of of the be people ore are immediately followed by bi the lie ot of the greek catholic church if there here are any excell excellencies wel or other functionaries function aries or boffl aal t la in present day russia Il the does doea not give hein As aa for the diplomatic corpa at petro grad atoil all the ambassadors and walters except oue from spain are rig designated as absent one curiosity is that albania shares with san marino tile hie of 0 having a by blanks LI inks |