Two thousand questions and answers about the war; a catechism of the methods of fighting, travelling, and living of the armies, navies, and air fleets ... countries with seventeen new war maps and a - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ... Livonia were specifically arranged. Russia undertook to make peace with the Ukraine People's Republic, and to recognize the peace treaty between the Ukraine and the Central Powers. Finland and the Aland Island were to be evacuated by Russia at once, and Persian and Afghanistan integrity and independence were to be respected by both sides. Russia was to evacuate Asiatic Turkey occupied by her troops, and Erivan, Kars and Batoum (the oil and manganese regions) in the Caucasus. Q.--Could Germany get rich out of Russia alone? A.--If a coalition of all other nations obliged Germany to depend on Russia alone as an outlet for her commerce and industry, she would have a field which may be described as follows: European Russia (without counting Poland) is almost exactly two-thirds of the area of the United States, and it has 30 million more people than we have. Yet this big territory, with its bigger population than ours, imports only onequarter of what we import:--and we are a great producing nation, manufacturing heavily for our own consumption, while Russia needs goods from outside if she is to assume a big place in modern industry. Even at that low figure, however, the world's imports into Russia were about one-fifth the amount of Germany's entire annual export trade to the whole world before the war. It would appear that, with a free hand to industrialize Russia swiftly, expand railroads, etc., Germany might reasonably expect, in a very small number of years, to draw nearly as much wealth from her neighbor as she does now from the whole world. Q.--How much of Russia's total imports did Germany have? A--Before the war she had about onehalf of the total import business of Russia. England came next, but very far behind. We came third, and a very bad third. Then c...