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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19960, 19 November 1934, Page 12

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ITS ROLE IN HISTORY Another landmark of the nineteenth century passes in the Three Roses Inn of Miskole, Hungary, which is being reconstructed as a block of flats. Like most Hungarian inns of the period, the Three Roses was a spacious two-storeyed building in which the landed gentry of the neighbourhood gathered for the country balls, and where foreign royalties stayed when travelling through the country. The journel “Nemzeti Ujsag” recalls that in 1848 the great patriot Kossuth poured fiery words on the populace from the balcony of the Three Roses. A few decades later a banquet was A few decades later a banquet and ball were given at the Three Roses to fete King Edward —then Prince of Wales—on the occasion of his being named honorary owner of the crack Hungarian regiment, the Twelfth Hussars, by the Emperor Francis Joseph. In the autumn of 1881 an incident in the Three Roses came near to setting Europe in flames. During the autumn manoeuvres the inn was made general headquarters by the Emperor and his suite, and swarmed with royalties, army chiefs, foreign diplomats, and members of the Hungarian aristocracy. A journal of the period records that a journalist on the staff of a local newspaper determined to get into the Emperor’s private apartment by hook or by crook. Dressing himself as a sweep he gained entrance to the inn, and succeeded in passing the armed guards and gaining entrance to the Emperor’s study. Once inside, however, the journalist found that he was expected to commence operations on the large china stove, and opening ft discovered a crumbled scrap of paper, which proved to. be a telegram written by the Emperor and addressed to the Tsar. Next morning the telegram, which turned on the question of war or peace, was reprinted in full in two local papers. All Europe was thrown into ferment, and the luckless journalist was consigned to prison for some years.