-11- The territory in question, which coincides with the Italian province of Bolzano, has an area of 2,735 square miles and a total population (1936) of 278,000. In the census of 1921 ( the last cnesus in which the inhabitants were listed according to language), out of a total population of 244,000 there were 189,000 Germans and 34,000 Italians or Ladin-speaking inhabitants. Many Germans, apparentlly about 100,000, were moved to Germany after an Italian-German agreement and plebiscite in 1939. Since the surrender of Italy, however, German administration has been established in this territory, which is probably still predominantly German in population. 27. KLAGENFURT AREA.--Yugoslavia claims the Klagenfurt basin, roughly to the boundary of Styria and including the cities of Villach, Volkermarkt, and Klagenfurt. This area remained under Austria sovreignty in 1920 after a plebiscite in the southern portion resulted favorably for Austria. The territory involved has an area of about 1,000 square miles and a total population of some 250,000, of whom only 27,000, according to the Austrian census of 1934, are Slovenes. 28. YUGOSLAV-HUNGARIAN BORDERLANDS, including Prekomurje, Medjumurje, Baranja, Bachka and the Yugoslav Banat. These areas were ceded to Yugoslavia by Hungary in the Treaty of Trianon, June 4, 1920. Since the defeat of Yugoslavia in 1941 all but the Banat have been occupied by Hungarian forces. The Banat is now a part of the puppet state of Serbia and is administered by the local German minority. These districts have an area of 7,987 square miles and a total poulation of approximately 1,535,000 persons. According to the census of 1921, there were 670,000 Serbo-Croats, 393,000 Magyars, 321,000 Germans and 68,000 Rumanians in this territory. 29. RAAB SALIENT.--Yugoslavia has claimed on ethnic grounds a small area of about 50 square miles on the upper Raab River where Hungarian territory forms a salient between Yugoslavia and Austria. The population is not more than a few thousand. 30. HUNGARIAN-CZECHOSLOVAK FRONTIER ZONE.-- This area was ceded by Hungary to Czechoslovakia in the Treaty of Trianon, June 4, 1920. Some of the parts indicated were |