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Show LETTISH HOPS HC01EB HOI 0;d North Russian Nation Turns Feverishly to Study of English RIGA. Latvia, Dec. 11. Lettish troops which fought with the Czechoslovaks Czecho-slovaks In Siberia have recently r-turned r-turned to ftlga from Vladivostok and have been received with great patriotic patrio-tic demonstration, l'nd-r the treaty ; with Moscow about 100,000 Letts are ; to be released from Bolshevlkl territory terri-tory and returned to their homeland. ;Thls Increase of population is Increasing Increas-ing ih problehis of the little country I Glad as Latvia is to sec its sons return, re-turn, their presence places n heavier burden on the food supply, and there Is little employment to offer them. The "killed workmen of Lettish blood who have bee;-. Working in so l i factories refuse to remain Pi Rugftla because of , enlorcSLJabor and inadequate food. M s( . M.llsn it is climated hv the LeitlsJi forelsn :-office that more than ROO.OOO Lettish clUsens are in America. They are chiefly in the manufacturing centers, such us lietrolt, Chicago, I'itisburg ami the New England industrial towns, especially the shoe towns. The Letts- are all Studying English industriously because of the influx of l.rlt!sh and American business men. Every shopkeeper has at least one clerk who irf burled In an English grammar. Most of the Letts speak i Kusslan and German fioltr-r than they In their own language, but; under ; changed conditions they are also forced forc-ed to study Lettish. Language school have sprung no In all the cities and I there la an heroic struggle to acquire ac-quire the languages necessary to meet the new situation created by the sec cession of tin- Baltic states from Rus- lala. iBANDOlS w ii inNt.t i s Many of ihe government officials in latvia. Lsthonla. Lithuania and Kin-land Kin-land speak English and all rre agreed III Is the language which must eventu ally be common to all the countries bordering the Baltic Lithuanian. Let tlsh, Ksthonlan and Kinnlsh are all very different languages Finnish and I Esthonlan are somewhat related. The same is true of Lettish and Lithuanian. The small states do not expect foreigners for-eigners to acquire a language uaed by Mich a small group of people. |