IN DOWNTRODDEN POLAND.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 13956, 15 April 1913, Page 6

IN DOWNTRODDEN POLAND.

RUSSIAN TYRANNY. SCENE AT r PADEREWSKI I CONCERT. ■ (Sydney Sun. Cables.) . | . . LONDON, April 5. An extraordinary incident was witnessed during' one of the series of concerts, that Paderewski is now giving in Poland. , ■•-. The famous pianist;’, is), in, his . native land, and , lids .countrymen,. thrive' Been manifesting the mo.-t intense ■over- his.performances.’' , ' v.. In Whipsaw ..yesterday, .evening Paderewski met with a r troifiehdans receptionSeveral,of the. .buquets .and wreaths ; of ired'' (diifi ivliitc , fjoivci's, ■ decorated, with amaranth streamers, bpt iis, these. are the .Pplisliicolprs;.' the Russian .police seized the floral tribute's and nut, , oft, tlie ■ stihnimerh'the i flowers to be banded up. to the platform. I

THE KAISER’S YACHT.

SOCIALIST ATTACKS ON HIS NAVAL CAPACITY. ISKKLIN* Febrftary 19. The ICiiser’s activities asm sailor wore .to-day bitterly attaok-ed'hy The, Socialists ,1;!; thc/Khiclffitag •'du ring the- discussion of the., naval estimates; - It was proposed'by^tliC'-Government that £500,000 should bo- spent on .rebuilding the royal yacht Hohenzollern on the ground that "the .vessel. which ! was built in 1890, is now old'and not luxurious, fast, or safe enough for -presentpur-posi-s.; 4 " ' ; .y ; ; Herr Lcdehour, ' the Socialist, opposed the ‘proposal,-■■■dochiring that the naval estimates took into'.“Consideration - only .warships and .Hot pleasure yachts for,the '•Raiser >• ylf 'thowivaispr'/ashoiftipander-in-chicf requires mu .official 'vessel,” said llerr, laidehqur; ‘ ;ev.ery -'battleship has siieeial. suite,i' of hOOmi'. ffiirpo.se.. If the. . Kaiser uyiuitp : a-private; ship: let; him p;tv foh' it fiiniself;” - ■■■ Another, went fur*v ,^hor,. deebimig that The 'lvaiser'was ut« ’ terlv unlit' to command anv' naval ma.nobuvrL', ipcyiir .haying'/passed any examinatipn' dr test.vtiHh .'was merely, ah amatedi;'sailor.■/ , .y: Admiral von, Tir.nih^.' the .Naval'-'MiiU ister, protested warmly against 'the last speech. He declared that the Kaiser’s knowledge of naval matters was complete,' as hp had;often reason to ascertain personally during the last ~ twentyfive years. ' ' ' '■ The Government’s, proposal -was-finally adopted in spite of the .Socialists’ opposition. DEATH CRESTA RUN. YOUNG AMERICAN KILLED AT STf MORITZ, - • j/ ST. MORITZ, February IS).-’ - • Mr -Charles.■ Lowe Boorum, of Newr morning- -while: 1 tohbgahnihg ,oiithe Orosta' ruii'-thut hd ■ died later. -iHe was, ; riding' from .the,;top--of -the-rum. in the new. manner, -right; forward.-ono-the toboggan, ..- and was; travelling ■.■•aa-- great .-■speed, . when-:-he.’ wu si .thrown offir ;«t the tail of - .the battledore, bank; Her;turned ;.a . complete somersafiiit.. withthfflotohoggan, and-, struck -tthe;.shuttlecock hank, dustaiuihg a, fracture;,oh,, the.’ skull iand a broken. jaw.. /. ; AVhgn. ho,oyas-,.picked,!up ho. wigs, alive, hut died shortly Wlprwards;!Xho Cresta run dias .been closed until:further notice. .. T-V;.' - ~ Mr Boorum- was, only eighteen .yea-fsW ago, and was staying at 'the, .Kulpy- Hotel , w;ith his .niocher..,. Captain-,-Pencil died' nr- February, 190,7. -from injuries' sustained on the run, and Count’.de Mylandt, was .killed l on February .18 of the. same year. , ; . . *ho Cresta, is about three-quarters of a mile long, with .several ’dangerous curves. The. tobogganers. are ■ kept on the - track,,by great, banks -of, snow. Acddpnts .are , so', frequent: that only one tobogapher. at, .a, time,. is,..allowed on the course.. 'ln some.places a’ speed of .seventy miles ait ,hour.,,is.reached. At one point, known as, the-Church- Leap „ tlie- tobogahnqj; .flicsfjdjmigh ithe jair, re-, gaining the,track.lower doWn. v •

I .A* U-’' ■■■• I WOMEN FIGHT., POLICE. I ZION CIT.Y RIOT. OLD MAN SERIOUSLY HURT. ' ~ (Sydney Sun Cables.) V ' • CHICAGO, April 5. Enraged by tho.'cftbrts bf the'polioo to break up--a meeting of Dowictics at Zioti .City, ■ general women -t'einpdr'arily lost their reason. . . Ar, the police approached the Women . tf ?, siiriek; then * they attacked ’the, oßiccrs with-- their luuis. An ' old’ man, John Darling-, was knocked down and : seriously hurt. ; • . Several arrests were made after a furious fight between- the Women and the policemen. 1 . *. " CONSTANTINOPLE ALL RIGHT. ' TROUBLE ,M[ KURDISTAN. LONDON, April 5. Precautionary pleasures arc being- irdpubled in ,Constantinople,: against;: .the population. unrest that.: exists . because of the, possibility .of, an early declaration of peace. ... The .Government, can rely, upon,, the , police and volunteers, to suppress rioting. ;' v .ln the meantime :tJio .state-of.-Turkish Kurdistan is rapidly growing worse, and ‘ the chiefs and .their,,armed .followers are , defying' the authorities, who arc powerless to act 'strongly .owing.', to. the: absence of i'.i,'."' learning from America; AM OLYMPIC' STUDENT. PHILADELPHIA, April., 3., • ••-. Laurie Pisjcalo, who holds thhp Finnish records- for the ; 22o,* 440-and;800 metres’ races, has arrived-a,t'Philadelphia- to take up six. weeks studyof' the • method of training athletjs in’; the University of Pennsylvania. , ' . , Vi , v Piskalo hopes to learn .new ideas which will help , him in the : training of the Finnish team at the i 1910 Olympic games.'