ONE-THIRD LOST
♦ —- CZECHOSLOVAKIA'S PEOPLE Czechoslovakia loses roughly a third of her population and area as the result of the general readjustment of her frontiers. While no exact figures can be given until the mixed committees have completed the delimitation of the new frontiers (reported The Times on November 3), it can be said that of the 15,000,000 inhabitants of Czechoslovakia, 4,900,000 have become citizens of neighbouring States — 3,600,000 of Germany, 240,000 of Poland, and 1,060,000 of Hungary. Czechoslovakia claims that 1,250,000 Czechs, Slovaks, and Ruthenians will have to live as minorities—--720,000 in Germany, 130,000 in Poland, and 400,000 in Hungary. Of the 54,600 square miles of the former Czechoslovakia about 16,000 square miles have been ceded—lo,Boo to Germany, 770 to Poland, and 4630 to Hungary. Hungary will now contain 750,000 Slovaks, and will have a Slav minority of about 10 per cent, of her tbtal population.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23686, 19 December 1938, Page 5
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