The natural resources of Poland comprise coal, oil, iron, lignite, salt, potassium, zine and the mining of those minerals goes on now at full speed. The Polish zinc mines are the second largest in Europe. As a coal 5 ahh cee one ehh keane ace nanneneeaaed mining country, Poland ranks fifth in the world, Poland supplies 20 per cent of the world's crop of potatoes, and is after Russia, the second producer of hemp in the' world, and one of the greatest producers of beet sugar. The president of- the Republic, Ignace Moscicki, a distinguished chemical engineer, created in 1930 one of the largest factories of nitrates and fertilizers in the world, Moscice, near Krakow. It is a tremendous factory, occupying a site of 1,300 acres, with an output of 100,000 tons per annum.
Must emphasis is laid in Poland on education and new school houses are being constantly built in every part of the country, 16.5 per cent, of the national budget is spent on public education.
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