ESTONIA'S DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1938, Page 20

ESTONIA'S DAY.

FIRST REPUBLIC. CELEBRATION TO'DAY. EX-PRESIDENT IN AUCKLAND. TTif 111 <•', i) „■r- j .if i in- | -lonian nation 1 hr..11 ,1 11,,. ~,.1,-1,,-.,t 1"* I'l * l•> l M.I I 1i.11,l | llnlillil y. I I 11 t n 11 Us ilh- |li 11*t \lll i 111 1111111 \ -1'~,i r \ I' ' ' ' 1 ' 111 - I 1.-i I 1111 1.1 11 Si .. i,l | i -41 it |;i-■ ,11 |, " 1 I" 1 Kit* I. llh- mi l H urn I 11111 i - 1 ' > •- ■< hi- li-111nf,-.| f. • i li,. in .i |, ''i N . a /.'i. 1.1 ml ,i I ,\ ii, k l.i n,| t hi- \ c,i i . v 1 '■** Ir.iili-r of 1 I i-i . I -' ■ '.111- \|i ,i. .1 |,11u.11 <, \| ». . i li,. I - H'lll t~ . II"- I. I I--. ||.- i. ,| |,|, | ||~ ' V I" " ' 'I''" 1 "I I I I I II -I l- -1....... >, 11 -1,. • i:..|.,ii,ii,.. 1 <i' i-i-1• 111>11<- ..I' [■:«(,.in.,, '» h■< h 11'• - ',n Mi,' It,lll i.- •sea ii 111, iini I, j I«». I \ lit. ,i ml I.i 1111 in nin.« ii . |>i ~.. |,| j 111,.,| I 1 yfn i - ii 11 <m t In- |ir«i i.-1• 11 i.hr In I In, I" "l" I'.l-I II 11 < I |S TT|.||-r-l 111 I'll i|| \|.« /"'■ !i ■ 1 ■' In Mr. \. ll,'in.i. ( ~ii-iil i. „■ l.nl >i i .n,l ii, I ni" ( iin~ii 1 f.,.- Km..ni,i.

After t lit* < treat War. with the aid of '•rent. Hri'ttiin. the KstoniaiiH «iicccedc(l ill cuta blishing their independence. Ol' till* ll'.st on ia us, between .100, (MM) and 4(H).IMH) are immigrant -» • pread over »h« earth. I here are about a(MM» Kstoiiiiins in Australia and New Zealand. Thin Immigration commenced * In mfc •>"» years ngn under the leadership of the "then youii,# Kstonian schoolteacher, Mr. fiiikatx, who later lavaiue ft chieftain oillcer with the I'ussi.m ( ossucks, mid at the time of the lir-l Ruwsian revolution (lIMKt) over lilMl.lMMi Kstonian* were emigrant* spread o\er thu Kamtprti Russian provinces. There wa# entablished, with the aid of l(u«sian revolutionaries, the First. Kstonian Socialist in Republic in the Far I'.ant. Th* Russian revolution was sup pressed and the First Kstonian Republic demolished. After it lie Oreat War the

Rnltie Sr.,i Proving were cut. off frnm mill we rp formed into the three in• l in 1 ciit mat iona list ie re|iuhlies of Kt-lonia. Lat\ht and J„ithininhi. K«?onin i* I In- smallest nt I lii'se three r<-' • 111 >]; i—. i"- " '""it. iitic li ft li t In* urea of New /.i•.i Llll.l ; it, l| Jt y , t . |.i.|iulal ion ot I•I —. .lii ii I a nil i»t' I lit'- 4 ,, 87 per cent are I. -I "li i.i n nationality. W i'f-t an,l Northern Kotonia in «urrotiii,leil li, t lie Haiti,- Si'n anil (iulf of l-iii In ml. ami . .ii the south anil east by l»a I\ ia arid ltii**-ia. I hes t t jH'Ojtlc are iii'ji i, ult nri»ts an,l derive their living II "111 1.1 rm I 111'. The I're-ident. Mr. K, ''ii' is liini-i'lf u farmer an,l stock breeder. I he lar-.'ent eentre i* the town ol' Tallinn (Keviil). with 1 i nli.i l,i t a ntf. Ihe o\eri-eas movement is still in I lor.-e in Ki-ton i,i. an,l the powerful semi ,itli, i.il Overseas I ii'k.n is under the full I >i.' w, ti< .ii of tlif (on eminent. and ini' 11 ide l-.-toiiia lis all ~\er the world. It held i third world emigres* in dune lant in Tallinn, ami eelehra le* now the l'"iirt h a iiniv er-ary of the K-tonian : n.it i,.ii.