THE SLAV POPULATION OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."'
SIR,—Will you allow me to draw your attention to an error which has'crept into the Spectator leader of Last Saturday ?— • -The Writ" Chirrest "wal3 'cake- the espies ad satisfacienclum—unimasally called a ca.-se.
" Half the population belongs to the South Slav race.' are really only seven out of fifty millions. In figures :--- Uermans
There rOund-
... 11,000,000 Northern Slays (dzechs, Slovak-s, Poles, Enthenes) ... 10500,000 9,000,000 Latins (Italians and Roumanians) ... 4,600,000 Southern Slays (Croats, Serbs, Slovenes) ... 7,000,000
It is only by counting all her Slays, North and South, that half of the population of Austria..Hungitry can be reckoned as Slay. "Southern Slav" (Yougo-Slav), in its very widest possible sense, includes the Bulgars as well as ' he Croats. Serbs, and Slovenes; in the sense almost invariably employed in Austria it means the three latter without the former.—I
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