| Show POLISH ESTATES GIVEN BACK TO HEIRS OF LOSERS VT rt aa 1 1 1 when thel czar of all lie hie kusins J ordered ordered the confiscation more than a century ago of the property of the polish nobles who had taken an active part in the abortive uprising of 1830 31 against russian ri rule lie tile the domain of the RussI russian In state was enriched by many thousands of acres of meadow and forest dotted with numerous castles and other buildings ings and when poland arose again as a nation out of the ruins of the world war most of this confiscated property passed into the possession of the republic but under a decision recently handed down by the highest court in poland and reported in european papers the republic Is likely to lose nearly all these estates and while regretting the loss to the state most patriotic poles a are re said to agree with the court that the heirs of the nobles w who he fought and died in the century old effort to free poland from the russian yoke are entitled to the property confiscated by the czar among the leaders of the 1830 1930 31 revolution was gen count myskle his broad estates were taken over by the russian crown now the warsaw court has decided decide d that all that property valued at about must be returned to the present count a direct heir this decision Is expected to be followed by many others 0 07 the same sort involving a great deal of property |
