Oct. 29, To-day the Czechoslovak colony of Shanghai, together with their compatriots in other arts of the world, celebrate the irth, thirteen years ago, of a Zouk republic with a very long story. In another column will be found an interesting sketch of a nation which has passed through the whole cycle of national fortune, from small beginnings in the dim past to a magnificent kingdom in the Middle Ages, thence into a Gegree of servitude and finally to emerge as a result of the Great War into a young. sturdy republic, probably destined to play an' important part in the fortunes of central Europe, It isa fascinating subject, this short study of the history of ofd Bohemia peopled by the most western of the Slav races, early assuming the western' civilisation as its own and gradually forsaking that of its nativity until it became the ethnological link between the peoples truly of the West and those who entered Europe proper from the East, And it has about it a quality of Yomance.which the very name of Bohemia always seems to convey, 'a. quality which the people them-solved and their history have done so much to justify.
The present situation of this young republic, just in its teens, is one which deserves a sympa thetic understanding. Formed as the result of a bloodless Yevolution at _a time when the whole of Europe was thrown into the melting pot, from which it has not yet completely escaped, the industrious race which "had endured three hundred years domination by another people, sought no extremes when the fortunes of the Great War had freed it from the Hapsburg yoke which had denied it self-expression for so long a time; but, with frugal industry, sought to' build up an econo structure which would serve i
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