[116] A law passed in 1908 authorizes the State to acquire land in the administrative circles in which German interests require development of colonization. B. Auerbach: La germanisation de la Pologne Prussienne. La loi d’expropriation, _Rev. Polit. et Parlem._, Vol. 57, July 1908, pp. 109-125. [117] P. Langhans: Nationalitätenkarte der Provinz Schlesien, 1:500,000. Sonderkarte No. 1 in _Deutsche Erde_, 1906. P. Langhans: Nationalitätenkarte der Provinz Ostpreussen, 1:500,000. Sonderkarte No. 2 in _Deutsche Erde_, 1907. Die Provinzen Posen und Westpreussen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Ansiedlungsgüter und Ansiedlung, Staatsdomänen und Staatsforsten nach dem Stande von 1 Januar 1911, _Deutsche Erde_, Vol. 10, Taf. 1, 1911. [118] M. Loesener: Besitzfestigung in der Preussischen Ostmark. _Deutsche Erde_, Vol. 10, 1911, pp. 3-8. [119] Dalchow: Die Städte des Warthelandes, I. Teil, Ein Beitrag zur Siedlungskunde und zur Landeskunde der Provinz Posen. Leipzig, 1910. [120] After having been entirely banished from secondary schools, Polish was excluded from elementary schools by a ministerial decree, dated Sept. 7, 1887. Religious instruction alone could be imparted in this language and even this privilege was removed in 1905. [121] G. Bienaimé: loc. cit. [122] B. Sands: The Ukraine, London, 1914, p. 8. [123] H. Rosen: _Pet. Mitt._, Vol. 61, Sept. 1915, pp. 329-333. [124] A. Weinrich: Bevölkerungsstatistische und Siedlungsgeographie, Beiträge zur Kunde Ost-Masuriens, vornehmlich der Kreise Oletzko und Lycke. Königsberg, 1911. [125] L. Niederle: La race slave, Paris, 1916, p. 94. [126] H. Witte: Wendische Bevölkerungsreste in Mecklenburg, _Forsch. z. deut. Landes- u. Volksk._, Vol. 16, No. 2, 1907. [127] Op. cit., pp. 96-97. [128] Including 40 per cent of Jews. [129] The Slavs are divided by religion into a main body of about 110,000,000 individuals belonging to the Russian Orthodox Church, about 37,000,000 Roman Catholics, 5,000,000 Raskolniks or Sectarians, between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 Protestants and over 1,000,000 Mohammedans. [130] La race slave, Paris, 1911, pp. 3-4. [131] L. Strzembosz: Tableau des divisions administratives actuelles de la Pologne, Paris, 1915. [132] Not including the circles of Lembork (Lauenburg), (479 sq. mi., 52,851 inhab.), Bytow (Bütow) (238 sq. mi., 28,151 inhab.), and Drahim land (Draheim) (197 sq. mi., 18,500 inhab.), which were lost in the first partition in 1772. [133] Not including the circle of Susz (Rosenberg) (407 sq. mi., 54,550 inhab.), and half of that of Kwidzyn (187 sq. mi., 34,213 inhab.), which together made part of ducal Prussia and were lost in 1656.