Partition of Republic of Poland

PARTITION OF REPUBLIC OF POLAND.
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--FIRST PARTITION: Russia took about 3,000 square leagues,Austria -- 2,500 --Prussia -- 900
--SECOND PARTITION:Russia took about 90,000 square miles,Prussia -- 15,000 -- with the Towns of Thorn and Danzig.
England benefitted by this partition. I quote from documents on file in the English Record Office:Lord Grenville made England “a party to a concert, one part of which was the giving of compensation for the expenses of the war from a neutral and unoffending nation” (Poland).
Pitt and his government made England responsible for the second partition of Poland.
The Polish people have the right to expect full reparation now from Great Britain.
THIRD PARTITION:Russia took aboit 181,000 square miles, Austria -- 45,000 --Prussia -- 57,000 --I quote Lord Eversley:“The destruction of the Polish Kingdom and partition of its territory were political crimes of the gravest kind, unequalled in the past of Europe”.
After the year 1830 and at the beginning of the present war, five-sixths of the territories of the Republic of Poland were in the possession of Russia. The present eastern front is still on lands of Polish Republic. Germany has not as yet invaded Russia proper.
To dismember Prussia of all her past spoils means the abolishment of militarism.
On Map I, the territories in Silesia, marked by blue pencil, are very rich in coal fields. These territories are today populated by Poles, the majorities in the different districts differing from 40% to 80%.
It was the coal and coke by-products industry that made Prussia so rich and formidable. This district, although lost by the Poles before the first partition, should be restored to them, and this will forever hamper Prussian and German preparations.
The lost Sea territories, marked by blue pencil, were artificially depopulated of the Slavic element; these should also be returned to the Poles.
We must always have before us, in dealing with the Polish question, the fact that although in some districts the Poles are in minority, such minority was created by the most cruel methods employed by both Prussia and Russia.