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Show The Little Duchy 01 Luxemburg Writing of tho llttlo Duchy of Lux emburg, which figured so prominently In tho beginning of tho war, but which Is now lost in tho shufflo of peace whllo tho world around It is fighting, tho National Geographic Society So-ciety says: "Tho tiny, Independent state of Luxemburg lias been a'most lost sight of while Kuropo Is fighting its great war. Vast war armies swept over this Infant monarchy at tho beginning ot tho war, passed beyond, nnd left It all undamaged far behind tho bat-tlo bat-tlo linos. Luxemburg was In no posl tlon to oppose tho passago of nn empire's em-pire's forces, nnd, theroforo, quietly submitted to tho passago of tho Cor-man Cor-man array. Hcnco It Is still tho possessor pos-sessor of n well developed Industry, of smiling fields nnd mendow, and of a peoplo happy In tho security of their young mon. When the kaiser's army corps started by way of this Grand Duchy Into Franco, Luxemburg had a standing army ot 200 and nbout ICO policemen with which to opposo the German endeavor. Such an army as tho Grand Duchy had was nbovo re proach, well-drilled, well set-up, well-fed, well-fed, and handsomely uniformed and caparisoned, but It might as well havo set out to stay the tidal waves of tho sea as to have mobilized In dpfenso of Its neutrality. "Whllo Luxemburg's army formed such a depressing minority of tho stnto's peoplo that It was not largo enough to do battlo with tho pollto force of any of tho larger cities of Its neighbors, tho 998 squaro miles of tho Grand Duchy's territory Is tho most fortunato of nil tho roglons In that part of Europe, while tho peoplo there hnvo fewer losses to mourn thiu any population from tho Pyrenees to Kamchatka on tho Pacific. Moreover, tho standing nrmy of Luxemourg still musters 200 men, 150 police and not a captain, colonel or a general Is missing. "This llttlo monarch has belonged nt ono tlmo or nnother, to each ono of Its surrounding neighbors; It has been Germnn, Dutch, French, Austrian and Spanish territory. It Is now ono of tho smallest Independent stateE In tho world; ruled by n Grand Duchess who is llttlo moro than twenty years old, and possessed of a Constitution and n Houso-'o'f nepresentntlves. It tffitfg'fTcultural country, though there nro somo rich Iron deposits within It out of tho development of whl eh a thriving Iron and steol industry in-dustry has grown, with n production In 1901 vnlued nt 118,900,000. Tho railroads nnd customs of Luxemburg nro mnnnged by tho German emplro. Tho peoplo speak n German dialect, with nn Intormlxturo of French. Tho total population Is nbout 250,000." |