can hard- ly leap into prosperity. No reliable estimates have been made consisting of 273,250 Rumanians, 305,000 Rutheni- ans, 168,850 Germans (of whom 20,564 were foreign born; and 142,266 in 1925 amounted to £21,088. The affiliation fee of cach tended to check the steadily in- YUAN SHIH-K’AI (1859-1916), Chinese statesman, was born on May 28 1884 in the Lords. In political oratory, although an adjust- ment boards either on the Palatine in