CHANGING THE
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. · WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 13, 1935.
STORY BEHIND THE ASSASSINATIONS
The ceremony of the relief of the Royal marines from the guard at St. James Palace; London, by the guardsmen on their return
from war manoeuvres.
Book That Has Altered The Lives Of The Finns
AT MARSEILLES
DRAMATIC TRIAL AT SMALL FRENCH TOWN
LINK WITH TERRORIST SOCIETY THAT STARTED GREAT WAR. Paris, Nov. 5.
The terrorism that was behind Sarajevo and has brought constant upheavals in turbulent central Europe since the war will again hold the attention of the world this week when six of the plotters of King Alexander's acsassination are on trial in the little southern town of Aix-en-Provence.
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The 'word Oustachis-dreaded Croatian terrorist society was scarcely known outside the Balkans until October 9, 1934. On that day, as throngs lined the beflagged streets of Marseilles, cheering the smiling and gorgeously uniformed King of Jugoslavia, and Louis Barthou, France's aged foreign Minister, a man- dashed from the curb, leaped onto the. running board of the slowly moving open limousine and pumped bullets into their bodies. Almost before the smiles faded from the lips of Barthou and Alexander the assassin was struck down by sabres, shot by guards and finished by the crowd. Armada
This man was a member of the Oustachis named Three of his accomplices in France Petrus Kelemen. were quickly rounded up, and it is they who will be tried for their lives this week at Aix.. Locked up in an Italian prison is the big chief of the Croatian secret society, Ants Pavelitch, onetime deputy, brains and sup- reme leader of the band.
No word has come of Pavelitel the Italiana for months, but refuse to extradite him, and it in face unlikely that he ever
COLLECTION OF Legends and baLLADS hit for the murder of
days of the Oustachi terror, but he esenped abroad with a comrade after breaking prison and bating his pursuers by throwing bombs at them,
Of Gold
"INVISIBLE EYES” IN
EERIE MANSION IN a clearing in the Royal Forest of Whittlebury, where join the three counties of Oxon, Bucks and Northants, the Old House, solitary and sinister, keeps its secret of buried gold.
The strangest auxillery of the his king on French soil.
Oustachis was the camp at Janka
Beneath the house or in the He is actually on trial, along with Puszta, Hungary, where several At the Centenary celebrations of the Finnish National
two olhera who remain abroad, but hundred men were systematically surrounding pastures are Span- even if he is sentenced to death trained in the mechanics of terror ish dubloons and pieces of eight, Epos "Kalevala" on the 28th of February last at Helsinki,
will be only theoreticism-bomb making and throwing, the capital of Finland, the representative of the Chinese it
Part of the treasure, it is re- government, Mr. Tan, Charge d'Affaires to this country,ally. As a matter of fact, this is marksmanship and the like-and part of the treasure which Philip nothing new to Pavelitch, for he whence they went out to Jugoslavia of Spain sent with his Armada.
sentence of and other countries to carry out
lated, was washed ashore at Re- compared in his address the importance of "Kalevala" to is already under a
the dread orders of Pavelltch. For decades sceret political It was from there that the as- culvers, Kent. Various people the Finnish people with that of the Learnings of Confu-death in Yugo-Slavia. tzė to the Chinese people and earned an enthusiastic societies have spread terror in the sassins of Alexander came, as men fought for it, but a doughty have been had come in 1930 for the first at-knight, Sir Richard, got away applause. Mr. Tan was in his expression a little bit too Balkans. Beat known
the Comitadjis of Macedonin, who tempt on the king's life and later with most of the prize and buri polite towards his hosts, of course, in conformity with the have a bloody history of assassinato bomb the railroad station at ed it in the Royal Forest of
outrage behind them. Orick, to blow up the Belgrade Whittlebury. solemn character of the gathering. Nevertheless, the on and
Next best known and certainly next Zagreb line, shalter the facade of influence of "Kalevala" after its publication in 1925 has most active have been the Oustachika Zagreb church, fire almost at record is random at frontier guards and been an immense one in the development of the Finnish of Croatia, and their
already filled with sabotage, bomb-stir up uneasiness everywhere pos
murder although they sible. ings and culture.
have been in existence only since The Hungarians insisted last year that the camp had long been There is a curious, intangible broken up, but the evidence of its link between all these revolutionary having been tolerated, if not open-shortly by the members of a societies of the Balkans, and they y fostered for years as an aid to psychical research society. have many things-in-common. One ercating unrest in Yugo-Slavia, was |
of
What kind of book is then this "Kalovala," the National Epic of the Finna? It has been compared with the National Epos of some other European nations,-as-for- instance with the Greek "lled and Odyssey," the French "Chanson do Roland," the German "Niebialun- gen Lied" and the Scandinavian "Edda." All the material "Kalevala," the legends, poems and songs, which constitute the "Kalevala" have been present gathered
the from mouth of runesingers of common people in the Finnish and Russian Carella and in North East Esthonin wherd the population is of the race. The fathers taught them to their sons, the songs and legends going thus as inheritance from of one generation to another, course, changing in the course of centuries ns to their form and contents. From which time the chief contents of them have their
Kame
ELIAS LOENROTIL
origin is not to be laid down with Gare new birth to Finnish culture, certainty. They show influences
from many periods of culture and
the pagan time of the Figulah racoor enemies. The belief in the being the chief source of the force of song and magic word
songs.
1929,
04
common
Old documents show that the treasure is no myth, and there it lies to this day, guarded by the spirit of Sir Richard in all the finery of neck-ruff, slashed hose, sword and dagger. Sir Richard is to be visited
for occasional
Daylight Appearance is the fact that their secrecy, is too patent to be considered false.
From the old-world garden, with The last big sortie of Ouatachis iron bound. Generally the identity of the members is so close-before the king's murder was in its air of peaceful tranquillity, ly guarded that except when there 1933, when several detachments they will go to meet him in the is a definite job to be done the trained either in Janka Puszta or low-ceilinged, oakbeamed house men are unknown to each other Italy invaded the province of Lilt where even the sceptical say they an uprising seem to be watched by invisible and are held together only by their land sought to cause
and absolute obedience among the population. The people eyes. For it is here that Sir and fidelity to the chief. They failed to respond, and the rising Richard, except have one unfailing mark of identity, was suppressed, but the purpose of perambulations in the garden, is Nor is he particular about the skull and crossbones tattooed on the Oustachis was achieved, namely always to be found. their, arms.
the fostering of unrest and appr hension and fear in high and low time of his visits. The misty Planned New Empira. The Oustachis grow out of the places, and keeping in the public form often appears in broad day-
nocturnal sentry-go. political group called the Fran-mind the feeling that there were light. In addition to his regular The owners of the house, Miss kovazy which had questionable suc-disrupting forces. at work-in
D. Holland and Miss Dickinson, cess in postwar, restless Yugo-short, to practise terrorism.
are on the best of terma with him, Slavia. This group was
After organising the assassina-and he has no terrors for the after the founder Franko, à pen- Germanist Cront. Ostensibly Fran- tion of Alexander Pavelitch went numerous horses and dogs about ko and later the Oustachis pledged to Italy. There, in the midst of the estate. their lives to create an independent the terrific international tension Creatin, but netually, according to which followed, amid talk of an- of imminent many men close to them, including other Sarajevo and
named
Extradition Refused
Even so, the owners do not sleep in the mansion, and they have built themselves sleeping quarters over the stables. the famous Croatian leader Raditch, war, he was arrested but all pleas
Doubtless, Sir Richard treats they worked for the restoration of for his extradition to France fell was unshakable in this folk. The a new empire comprising Austria, on deaf ears.
Are the Oustachia dead because thein with the courtesy due from It was well known to many "Kalovala" degins with the crea-Hungary and Croatia. For this
Holland was a stretcher-bearer in scholars and intellectuals of Fin- tion of the world and rolls before reason Radlich stigmatised Franko Pavelitch, is in jail? No one will one warrior to another. For Miss
"foreign venture to say so. Although their land already hundreds of years our eyes the dramatics of the life and later Favelitch as
igents."
ranks have been badly shattered Belgium, and was in Ostend when ago that there were among the of the "Kalewala" folk and its own
Before 1929 Pavelitch,
as by the work of French and Jugo-the Germans entered the suburbs. common people An enormous way the birth of the founder of
Franko's successor, was a deputy siny police, Favolitch remains the Both she and Miss Dickinson were afterwards on the Western Front, richness of poems and legends the Christian religion whom the дя family inheritance. These greatest hero of "Kalevala" was and worked for his obscure cause brains, and It is likely that
retreat. materials were gathered by many forced to yield leaving to his na- by legal means, but when King Hungary and elsewhere at this and later took part in the Serbian
Alexander set up the Jugoslavia moment active leutenants
No reports by the psychic in- Interested peoplo. But at first.as tion as inheritance his songs and
dictatorship Pavelitch was driven working busily, reconstructing the Elina Loenroth, the son of a poor wisdom.
myth would convince the local in village
his tailor and after
to cover and the Oustach society society and preparing for further vestigators that Sir Richard is a This "Kalevala" has since its
habitants. Scores of them have strenuous studyings of young publication had a very great in- was born. It was then that they terrorism in the future.
were organised in great secrecy and
acon him, and seeing la believing. the modern poetry, the complicated if well concealed | 64 a district physician, re-fluorce of dovoted many long years for com- music and pictorial art of the
group began its terrorism. pleting the collection and for Finns. The history of the Finns
years
The first manifcatation of their
"Dead" Man
studying them, the chief items of and their culture was strongly existence was a political, murder Rose From
from
His Coffin
in
aru
"Kalovala" were at hand. The influenced by the connection of the that of Tony, Schlegel, editor of a present ""Kalevala" as to ita com country with Sweden. The war of Zagreb paper devoted to the hated position of form is thus his work. 1808/1800 broke off the centuries cause of a unified Jugoslavia. Ita proface was signed on the 28th long band between Finland and
In the years that followed there of February. 1835, which day the Sweden as a joint state. During
were many more murdera. There
CAME TO LIFE AS Finns usually celebrate as thoir the Swedish era the Swedish were bombings and the systematic Kalevala Day. It was printed language had gained a grodomin- creation of unrest over
on area and camo to publicity in theso ant place in the cultural life of
from the Albanian frontier to the PRAYERS FOR HIS SOUL
WERE INTONED wooks one hundred of years ago. Finland. Although Finland was northern Dalmatian const, The collection of folk songs, in 1809 united with the Russian the borders of Hungary to the legends and ballads has been empire ne internally autonomous Bulgarian frontier.. during the later years completed state, the Finns recognised that and published, containing now 30 they would never become Russians. From time to time Alexander's thick volumes, the richest collec- The only way was to start to polico laid their hands on Oustachis who tion of that kind in the world, develop the real Finnish National but
Pavelltch, The pooms and legenda of culture. As encouragement in this escaped abroad with a few Hou- "Kalevala" reflect the moral fleas development has the "Kalevala" tenants and worked from Hungary. of the ancient Finns, their family had an immense importance. Italy and oven France with great life, their fights, with the other The richness of poetical bonu-effectiveness and with obscure but
Police Baffled
never on
Warsaw, Oct. 12
the
Schneidermann, a quiet fifty- year-old Jew of the strictly He fell fainting orthodox faith. yesterday with a bad heart at- tack. Soon his heart stopped beating. Doctors examined him, 'issued a-death certificate.
Burial Had Been Delayed Burlals are forbidden on the Jewish New Year's Day, which be gins at five o'clock this afternoon. WHILE the ten traditional So it was arranged that Schneider-
watchers intoned
mann should be buried early this Jewish resurrection prayer in a morning before the festival began. house in Warsaw at midnight Inst night, a "dead" man moved in bis coffin, then slowly raised himself and gazed dazedly around him.
Last night the ten watchers guarded the coffin, and intoned the Jewish prayer, which de- clares that the dead shall be rosurrected at the advent of the Jowish Messiah. Suddenly the figure in the coffin
The shock was so great that vory tangible foreign financial suo one of the watchers cried out began to stir Israel Schneider- 16 port. Pospochil, one of tho men
facing the guillotine this week, was then collapsed-killed by fright. mann had risen from the dead.
The "dend" man was Israci To-day he has fully recovered.
tribes, their customs and uangos ties of "Kalovala" has induced lie etc. All the nature was full of adorers to translate it into gods and spirits to which the foreign languages. But I still folkpoets sung as to their friends waits its translator inte Chinese, one of those agrested in the early
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