LITTLE PEOPLES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 251, 27 November 1914, Page 4 (Supplement)

LITTLE PEOPLES.

HAS THEIR DAY DAWNED AT ! LAST? I The Czar's Declaration, offering m eloquent words the revival of that nationality for which Poland has never coa.*d to pray and strive. o]>ens up a most interesting lino of speculation says a writer in Nelson's ".Story of tho War." Has the day of the Little IVo- , pies dawned at Inst? Tho movement; oi the world during the past century has been toward the creation of big racial and national unit, but it would Si em us if xho world were changing its ' mind. Tho Balkan War aggiundis d tlie nationalism of the Little Pu*uloa ol the Near East. The present w:ir lie- . gan owing to an attack on the sov j creignity of Senna. Britain entered in- I to it because of Germany's assauh upon ■ the sovt reign rights of Belgium. Germany to-day is ligiting for the right to impose tho might of a strong power upon lessor neighbours. If the Allies are victorious will that mean that tho Little Nation will Imj givyvn their chance again? It looks not unlike it- i CHANGES ON THE MAP !

Whatever the result of the wair, the map of Europe will be changed. A vie. Tory for the Allies would involve tho restitution of Alsace and Lorraine to France —that goes without saying; it would pivbahly involve tho lOstoratioH of Schlefivvig-Holstein to Denmark (the Lit Mo Peoples again); it would moan some iiadreamed-cf arrangement of tho States in tho Gorman Empire, with Bavaria in all likelihood withdrawing into isolation. Tho Austrian Empiro would have to be wholly rcmodelVd. Hungary would become an independent kingdom; and tho Slavonic peoples of the south would be grouped together. WFIAT GERMANY STANDS TO LOSE. The-e are speculations, but 'Co onf change the Allies are committed —it lias been inscribed upon Russia's banner—the re-creation cf Poland. This menus that Austria and Germane nm-t disgorge, (ialicia must, be given up by the (inc. and Prussian Poland by tho ether. Here «'c have Russia a< the Ikv ginuing of a campaign making it clear what territory she "ill demand when that campaign is finished. She is fighting for Danzig, Poaon, and Cracow. Such a demand means rrnr a ourranne, for Germany will ligbt desperately for the preservation of the artificial empire which Bi marck put together. But Russia. Li not fighting for herself. She proposes to redress an aucieii: wrong. On the success of the Allies depends the future of the Little Peoples