Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 20
This is a reduced-resolution page image for fast online browsing.
EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:
The eurhoat known inhabitants of this region were th I ancient people closely related ^ the Lithuanian stock. Th I **** ** the Lithuanians must have come into this part of F.urope Ion 'hrf^ the arrival of either the German or the Slav; their lanauaa*; ancient; it is said that almost any Lithuanian peasant can under $ simple phrases in Sanskrit" (the language of ancient India). Soon after the beginning of the Christian era the Finns entered th country horn central Kussia. The Letts and the Linns are still th' dominant races in the Baltic Provinces. The U t t s occupy the countrv from the Gulf of' Riga eastward: Courland ami the southern half of Livonia. The Linns < Lsthonians) inhabit the remainder of the IWthorn half of Livonia. There is no longer | & a Livonian people. 'l I4 grc Of these the German element is the most important and also the most ancient, dating, as it does, from the time when the Teutonic Knights controlled the land Until quite recently the German nobilitv was the landowning class in the rural districts; the German merchants controlled the trade in the ct.es; German scholars manned the institutions of higher learning; and German clergymen of the Lutheran faith directed the attain, of the church and the primary schools. The Germans comfmnorrL u \\° * " *** ' ° * «** population; hut their mnportance in the public life of the Letts and the Lsthonians was very * j 7 Ce U f tf pelled t suZZ l tV t t e V Z Z l t r e 0( re tOVSk U n i n e a n d his , C ^ r Sh0re land " - Jt « " * * < * ' ™< <»*• » ** known just what as t0 brin them lt0 some sort of a vassaLelationr I * * * " expansionists J S l ^ S ^ t ^ ^ - * ? ^ * * ? U W,Se t o a d d elements to the German c\tl u . " ^tensive alien annex the Baltic lands with o t h t nd ft' ^ ***** '" * * * ? 8 regi ns) t0 the econ mC system of the Fatherland with™,? • "* ° ° t 8 t0 impair their nati na rights. The extension of t h e G ? ! * * ™ " ° 8 raiIwa s stem the east Prussian border to the GuTfZ S ^ * * y y ^^ port on the Arctic, and the adm!M; * ™ a n d , perhaps even to some StatCS t o t h e ed Mid-European tariff unior^wouTd ^ «***, com Germany an unassailable position on ^ ™ercial interests of of Economic dependence naturally carri ^ J P * * the Baltic Seay carries with ,t a certain measure of W Y
| 
