tures to the treaty submitted. This noteworthy event occurred on June 28, exactly five years after the murder of the Austrian Archduke, Francis Ferdinand, whose assassination was made the flimsy excuse for precipitating the war. This is thus by an odd coincidence another anniversary which the vanquished will have no occasion to observe with joy. The other enemy belligerents had no alternative except to follow their leader into the valley of humble submission. The signing of the peace pact by the chief antagonist, however, is what gave the greatest gratification, and is what was celebrated at Paris in a manner most unique. On July 14, which is to France what the glorious "Fourth" is to our country, under the Arch of Triumph, erected by Napoleon the First to commemorate his unprecedented victories, there rolled a triumphal procession more splendid than any of which record is made in history. It was headed by a contingent of maimed heroes, who had done more than their "bit," (in which stay-at-homes took a smug satisfaction), who had contributed more than their mite, who had given their might, and who therefore deserved the place of honor. There followed, to the inspiring strains of martial music and of successive bands, selected troops representing all the associated nations and also all races in Colonials of different colors in hues of skin. Conspicious among the marching hosts were one thousand stalwart Americans all six feet high, who answered to J. G. Holland's description:

"Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog

In public duty, and in private thinking."

Two other nations, besides reconstructed Poland, were established, principally at the expense of Austria-Hungary, both divisions of the empire losing much territory. The one

was Czecho-Slovakia, which was made up of Bohemia, the land of John Huss the reformer and martyr, and of Moravia, whose religious "Brethren" made a great name in world evangelization, and of Slovakia, occupied by those of similar lineage to the Czechs, and twelve millions were thus joined together. Fourteen millions were included in freshly-formed Jugo-Slavia, or the Serb-Croat-Slovene State, into which crushed Serbia and Montengro were merged to have therein their coveted enlargement. Contributing to this new State was Croatia, and specifically Bosnia and Herzegovina, the two provinces that in 1908 were coolly appropriated by the government of the twin eagles in violation of a treaty whereof it was one of the signatories. There were various points of controversy between this new nation that had been launched and Italy, but by mutual concessions most of Dalmatia was allotted to the former, while to the latter was assigned within this territory the city of Zara, and certain Dalmatian islands.

As to the great bone of contention, Jugo-Slavia claimed a seaport at Fiume, which Italy seemed determined to hold, her persistence having been carried to the extreme of a withdrawal for a while from the counsels of the Allies. American insistence in behalf of the Slav for a time "made Rome howl." There was a disorderly seizure of the contested section and a temporary occupation of it by Gabriele D'Annunzio, daring aviator, novelist, and poet of a decided if not of a "fine frenzy" in this matter. This madcap of an Italian, by his irresponsible individualism and by his defiance of the Peace Conference and supposedly of his own country, ran the grave risk of embroiling two nations in a deadly conflict. What seemed a ludicrous burlesque and even a roaring farce might have become a terrible tragedy.

To little effect, as the thing at last developed, had Gabriel blown his horn, sounded his tocsin, for a miniature war of his own private making. Eventually Fiume, by a direct and friendly negotiation between the two disputants, was made an entirely independent state, which was to furnish to both nations port facilities, and the happy agreement was reached (to be signed the next day) November 11, 1920 This was almost as fitting a celebration of Armistice Day, two years after the memorable event commemorated, as was the disinterment and the reburial, of an unknown soldier at the Arc De Triomphe in Fränce and within Westminster Abbey in England, when on this historic date these two immortals representing unnumbered millions were followed amid the strains of the Dead March to their last resting-place by French President and English King in full regalia, and by Marshals and Generals, and by Admirals and Archbishops, and by Ambassadors and Statesmen, and by weeping women who each thought it might be her beloved that was being honored, and by countless throngs, who all with bared heads stood amid an impressive silence for two minutes at the fateful hour of eleven o'clock, while the precious remains were taken from the gun carriage and once more and for all time were committed "dust to dust and ashes to ashes." A proposal, under suggestion from all this and having the endorsement of General Pershing, has been adopted by our Congress to bring an unidentified American hero from the European battlefield whereon he fell to hallow the new amphitheater in the National Cemetery at Arlington overlooking the capital of our country, and this is to occur on Armistice Day in 1921.

The Dual Monarchy by successive carvings lost its very duality, for Hungary became a separate political entity,

while only the distinctively German part of Austria remained, and this had a population of only seven millions as against the previous Twenty-eight millions, or fifty millions for the whole double empire. It sought but was denied consolidation with Germany, which also in vain desired the union, though this may yet be permitted by the League of Nations, for the realignment would be along racial lines, of which so much has been made in readjustments already effected. The reparations and requirements were similar to those exacted of Germany though in a lesser degree. The chief feature of the punishment meted out to the royal house of the Hapsburgs was the taking away of most of its territory in the forming of other nations on a racial basis. Hungary had to part with its subject races long oppressed, for separate groupings, while it was assessed its share of the damages done in the wide ruin that had been wrought. It remains only about a third of what it was in its palmiest days.

Never was there such upturning, and such overhauling, though of course with complete satisfaction nowhere, because at the various frontiers there was a confused tangle of races, no one of which had a clear majority. With Rumania, for the present at least possession seems to be nine points of the law. On the north she has had annexed Bukowina, and on the west Transylvania to the depleting of Hungary, and on the east Bessarabia, which Russia in the past had seized as a spoil of war, but which on Oct. 28, 1920 was ceded to its former owner by the Allies. The peoples of these provinces being predominantly Rumanian, of the same ethnographic type, were perhaps consistently gathered in to make the larger nation, more than doubling the