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CZECHOSLOVAKIA

In. 1918-19 there were in Slovakia 3,931 elementary schools with 4 953 teachers and 390,764 pupils. Of the total number of schools in Slovakia 756 are State institutions, the rest are denominational. In other parts of the Republic the elementary schools are all State schools.

Secondary education is provided in the gymnasia and modern schools, of which the country has 74 gymnasia, 71 real-gymnasia, and 71 real -schools, making a total of 216. Of the 178 secondary schools in Bohemia and Moravia, 114 were Czech and 64 German. In 1920 there were opened in Slovakia 2 gymnasia, 20 real -gymnasia, 1 lyceum, 6 real-schools and S teachers' institutes. All these are State institutions. Of denominational institutions there were opened 2 Protestant and 1 Catholic teachers' institutes.

There are 4 universities in Czecho-Slovakia, and 4 technical high schools, with teachers and students as follows : —

Universities

Teachers ■ Students

High Schools, T «M*e™

Students

Prague, Czech

(1348) Prague, German Brno, Czech. . Bratislava, Slovak

124 8,770

113 3,,043

18 190

!) 124

Prague, Czech. 61 Prague, German 31 Pnio, Czech. . 24 Brno, German. 28

6.268

1,174

l.lilill

1,598

Justice. — The courts ef the Republic arc : — Th« Supreme Court of Jiistice and Court of Cassation sitting in Brno ; 33, provincial, assizes and district courts, and 410 county and police courts.

There are also special courts for commercial, industrial, revenue and other matters.

A special Adniinistiativc High Court decides matters in dispute, atlocting the administration, e.g., appeals against illegal decisions and icgulatums made by State authorities ; in cases of conflict between the central State authorities and the organs ol the provincial local government ; in cases of claims made against the State or the local administration which have been vftped by the administrative authorities.

Finance

. — Budget

•stimates for 1920 and 1921 in thousands of kronen :—

U990

1921

Ordinary

Extra- ordinary

Total

7,750,770 10,410,17;.

Ordinary 12,057,486

9,17

Extra- ordinary

2,050,643

. Mlis

Total

Revenue

K\|ii;n<liture

6,82s, 582 4,920,691

2,427,188

!-.,4N9,4M

14,107,979 14,104,87?