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Show View of Reval, Gathonia. .Preperea hy iheJJMtoaal Oeegraphle Be- two new words Into play WOTtttj Lithuania..' Latvia lind F.sthontn, which, like Inteillgensln. may be mlatn k t . n ... . , - e,im miiuu ." I . , I I . - I . Icerraj innn uin uniiic rringe or war ttusslii. nnd whose lndepend recently bus been recognised by 1 United Stntis. have appeared oftet world comment latelv and are eon he Important In the years to c either ns buffers or gnteways to Ii ? Uusslii to the east. Mere mention of these three t fates Indicates how the Battle . manor bus been subdivided Into l nail. mul building lots. Here wl "he old Uussian and Herman emp fund Sweden held complacent sway ssortment nf new mitlnnul nelgM suddenly starts housekeeping H lend, Ksthonlu. Latvia. I.ltliunnlii, M land, with Its precious corridor to 0 sea and I be free city of Dunz'g se ntlng the Herman pspabllr from V Prusula. Sweden renuiiiis, us does I mark, wh-ise small frontnge now tisMen Important amid such a n waterfront development. Strnn; aa wna ih glunt Ituasln retains MM ted right of way to preserve real es lertu'nulogy nnd emerges now f tV Pelrngriid Hi rough the gulf thut se Ixa stes Barhnnlg from Finland. Llthunnlii. the southernmost nf Ij three major Paltlc countries cm out of prewar Itusaln, borrowed a) of the principles of Its republican hla eminent from the Cnlted Slutes. ha Over the present country of I.I In- mil, i. once the largest state In WtU extending from the Pluck sea to Rdltlc, the unities of flennnnv op fiusslo ontssed nnd recmssed tin 'e,l the World war. QaftJMM often ra J the country to capture cuttle and 1 'n ItusslanH cnunter-nttiicked to gain t:ydbite n-sults for the moral el elsewhi-re. ,in( Lithuania's Old Lsnguags. ii. These fnlr-bnired nnd Idue-eyed P'e, who claim thut there are n thun nne inllllon foreign born An a f,nH ' Lltbuiinliin Mtntettotl in ill. p,"n,ry. speuk a language whirl said by some philologists to be oldest living language today. It me primitive Sanskrit '-nn ) distinctly different from the Slnvi int 'H,,,l,.v- "' Teutonic und the Ij J? The cpnquerlng nutlons who ruled hit 'Tltory from time to time buve r tempted to stump out Hie nn tongue by requiring the children to ns textbooks und prnyer-books wrlttet his ""' ('vr1"'' alphabet, hut thev Ii rsf "over been entirely successful, ico ,,n' '"n' ,'"ll'nl of this n ng which now Is slightly In excess of lomblneil areas of New llumpsl l14 Vermont, Mnssuehtisetts and III njj Island, was Vllnu, wlmse nnrrow ho w'ndlng streets, stony piiMMiients lut horse-enrs give If a quaint nnd llttl metlleval iitinosphere. Though sent of government now Is Ku lt)j liinnv of the great events In Lill ll(J nlnn history center nroiind Vllnu. Vllnu WM founded ul the nne tlo f"n" Sttd Vlbiyka rivers OeVttfrdll In V.lTl. nnd Is connecteil nt mlb.vny lines with Petrotrud ml through Warvuw with most of (j ' capitals of Duropo. a Latvia Fought Well. lttviu. wiiit-ii udjoiiis Idthqaaln ,, e the north, stood out by Its iter pttshmtslll 'luring ttts? World war. io ',r 11 'ny Dad tie state, only a II ,d, ' Inrger than West Vlrg nla. to ha y bnttl the llolshevlsts and the Prnssl i 1 out nf Its borders, then to dlsnrm I-, Oenunns In Its uihlst by constltutb means Is nn in lilevement. Kven all 1 'ng for n strategic location and oi loinif-ii niea, I 1 I perslsienee and Ynnkee-lll-.e Ingem ci ntpai nitentlon. Latvia and the Letts were aire i distinctive. According to Or. Kd I A tirosvenor's rlassllU-atlon of t.. races of I M rope, the Letts with of l.ltliunn'iins stand atone as u sepal Pbo stem of the great Slav family '"g that splits Into n inierons bruin as uniotig the ICitstern Slavs, the i em Muvs. nnd the South or .1 the Slavs. 'en Lutvla reeelved Its credentials i for nation from the allied supreme ii rlon (f iilmost two yeurs ago. It cm ha this aajrlt reeognition us u rewiiet fO part, for nlhlng Itself srttll Pol ni i ngninsi gUtoatai white Ksthonla. t r.orlh in ide ii friendly liei ty Wltll uch Siivlet government, and I.ltliunnlii bod the south, stutrfed In a dispute I " I'M. i I over ii I'ound.ir.v question. 1 A consider;. thin of Lutvlu br pre - in. in., ini mm. inn irinraj nee f " w.iy towurd explaining Ins tl,(, portant facts about the new reptibllQi 1 In One of these words Is "Hidt." The to word does not refer, as might be aua time pex-ted, to any l.tdlgenous resident ofl nige the former Ilultlc pnivlneea of Ituas sin. Just the opposite. A Mult In at new non-l.ett, descetiilmit of the I '.ret hied aeu of the Sword, an nptly nsnu-d bungl new of nenmin merchants who sen led) iere nlong the Httlf of Itlgti. near the pietd Ires ent Latvia capital. Itlgu, and stnrted) . an In to cnnreri or kill the Letts. Thed sirs nnd there the Lefts gave an InkllnaJ Ftn of tltelr Independent temper. Tbe Po drove out th meillevtil uilmlonurieeu the Immci-sod ibetnselves iignln In thd pur witters of the Oilnn where they had) poal heon bnptlaed nt the point of Ocnnoa len- swords, nnd wnt the waters buck 19 he- tiernuiny ns evidence tt.it they rt ipld nouneed the new religion, gely 'I h n und Inter I.-itOn ghnok all y n nerman political control hut welcotnedl tate iHoiioinle co-operniloii of OermanSk ro m Itlga liecnnie a inmlntnt member of inir- the Hnosenfle lengue In Hie Thlrfeentbl ci nturv and kept an Import mi pluco the I" world irude until 1PM when 1 rved stood second only to Petrognid nusmg; in ny Ullllte cities In its shipping, gov- Through the centuries of political seexiiw the llenmin inert-hunts In l-iite tlin- vl" "' pllsbed what Invndera coule) one, riot ui'hleve. They gained control o the I lie bind and thus of the locnl goveraa und mcnis and held u position which hnd ring '"'en conipun-d tn thnt of the landed) Idod "entry In k'ngtnud of a century ug the This squlrenrcny of the I'm HI. con m- prises the Units. And ao untlgtitenedj Teet v"s Hielr tyranny thai when, uhuut the time of our chil war. the laav begun to Itusslfy the llnltlc provinces, peo- ",H '" "nil their neighbors resisted lure They resented the replm-einent of thcta tart fl',,,,"l hnrons hy Kusslun hiireutKTuUk llr "Lltersten- of Latvia. , S The otlier new word which Latvia Hie "rings Is "Llieruien." It apptlen tej rp. Hie professlonul men. the writers, ait is lad doeteifB and tsUtora, n group whieti mile "' hetween Hie alien noblemen, at) uin. ne hand, and the nuilve runner n,e and hiborei-s. on Hie otlier. The Uifc ,M. via "Llternleti." heciiuai the coo. live sirvers of literature, art. music, nnd Ideals of political Independence, i, n The present position of Lettish rm uive "I'' tlMty sytuhollse. In some decree) I ettlsli nnllotiiil life. In nriubly, visit ren. l,,rM "e linpreaord with the iiiiiKfrttl H, genius nf the people. Critics exptuinj ilre. that the Letts have imaged the tia mile "" lierlod mid are groping lowttr nd thut stage of creative genius where) and ' ptislllons may be exiMvleo inst tt Hi, ii, e Iv.Hionhi Is the northernmost or ib i von three i ltrles. lie norllieiisteni cor ma- mr. In fact, extends to within uIm:u fst miles of Ktonstudt. the fortified Hon giitewuv to Petrogrud. by The Pstlionl.ms udglii well clulin to I hv be the peers of ;iny imtlnnnl snffereri and "it'ei Ilevnl HmeH been use the U,e buve I n sore liesel both by Coruuinsj und Uussiuns. I'ioiii Hie eighties ol the lust eoninry until the World wuf op period KathlHllM bore Hie double yoka oui isnrlst laws administered by Iei mun nfl trill Is, As one writer echilniaV "Ileiiven preserve us from Itussluaj Hie law as Intel preied by Hermans, The) lops Kusslun olllcliil may nut take n Hut rh K'"" '"w rery seriously, hut oik- coa mil '"' Kara Hint the Oernmn olllcluls wilt. low- The Ksths are nn aboriginal eoplo for of northern I'.urope who once ferw 'la's Mfd lb Pnltlr hy plrary, nn1 Into ulty rliistnsl often with Swede and Dunes Within the past hJf century the Ita udy slutis undertook MrenuouM metbodM te Iwln BMttMr Hie Ksths Into the f,ld of theU the OrthodoN church. i the The rugged endurance of this north, rule ern people, their Otnllly tint, spirit. I tree suHicleiilly shown by their hearing ng) ches tinier oppression thut was hoi It ro fOt t'gloim and political, and from the po Bt llthiil stundpolnt both Prussian audi Itin-slun. Perhaps their .Mongol dO ns u sunt helps acconnt for thnt, nun- Befnff the World wnr Rotltanla wa rued mcoirnted one of the niOM progressiva 1 In nriniis. iigrlciiliurnlly, in Rttsslu, Nov, land lure Is sen reel y kind lo tbu Battel i (lie na it nutlon. Ttiay live in , iow i the swampy enuntrv, nowhere as high I, to ul-ove se.i level us I lie base to topf with height f the Wasblnfftoti moniiim-uk Their sumuiera are hot; their wiuier lugs ii.: a. i J |