Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-03-13 | Page 33 | Finlanders on Eve of Open Rebellion

FIILUDEIS 1 HE Of OPEN HEBELLIDH Nev Diet More Strongly Anti-Russian Anti-Russian Than Was' lis Predecessor. BY ERIC GRUNDMARK. Special Cable u The Tribune. COPENHAGEN. March 12. Developments Develop-ments in Finland arc behyj watched here with heen Interest. The new diet lo even more strongly anti-nusslan than its predecessor and Is le.s dlHpocd to act Tn accord with Instructions from .St. Petersburg. Under the circumstance?, It Ih rcga riled here aa only a question of a flhort time when mere will "lift another dissolution and elections. The Kusslan government lias, I understand, decided to so amend the electoral laws before the next election as to disfranchise a. sufficient suf-ficient number of tho antl-govennncnt voters to secure a complaisant parliament. parlia-ment. If this Is found to be Impossible,' IL is altogether possible that strong measures will In taken ami Finland will be governed as an ordinary Russian province. Whether this will lead lo an uprising can only be determined when the occasion nriss. It is believed here It will. If It docs, many, Danes, Xor-weglans Xor-weglans nnd. Swedes will he found fighting fight-ing with Uicir fellow Scandinavians, for sympathy with Hie "Finns Is almost universal uni-versal throughout the Scandinavian countries. coun-tries. Sweden 'b King Going to England. There 3 every probability of the lUng of Sweden paying a short visit to Eng-, Eng-, land before very long.- Ills majesty's iincdlcal advisera are of the opinion that, so soon as he Is sufficiently convalescent, convales-cent, he should take rattier a prolonged yachting trip in order lo restore him fully to his usual robust health, and there is every probability that the royal patient will fall In with these views. Great JirHaln would be on? of the first places that his majesty would visit, and It Is anticipated that he will arrive in England about the time that King Edward Ed-ward returns from his forthcoming spring holiday. Guest of King Edward. This visit would bc entirely of a private pri-vate character, but his majesty is expected ex-pected to stay for a short time at liuck-Ingham liuck-Ingham palace sis the guest of the king and iUCfn. and may even accompany 1 heir British majesties- to Windsor for the Ascot meeting, though horse racing, or. indeed, any form of outdoor sport, has no attraction for him. In ail he is expected to remain in England for about a fortnight, when he will rosumo Ills voyage, probably paying visit to one or more of tho German ports. King Gus-tavus Gus-tavus Is an admiral In the British fleet, and he will probably take this opportunity oppor-tunity to inspect a portion of. the vessels at Portsmouth when he arrives there. Crown PrlnccES a "Tomboy." The crown princess of Sweden, who has been in constant attendance upon her father-in-law. King Gustavus, during dur-ing his recent Illness, has long linen known as one of the highest-spirited members of the English royal family, and In hr young daya was regarded by her relatives as a regular "tomboy." She retains many of these characteristics to the present dny. and when slit? was first married she. often shocked many at the rather prim and' formal court of Sweden. ' v ' : ' Ruler Is Democratic. The king of Sweden rules ovor a most democratic country, and he gave . great offense to his subjects on one occasion a short time ago by the gorgeousn'!i of his attire at a. ball given by him at Stockholm castle, when tho ladies appeared ap-peared with powdered hair, nnd the ben-tlcmen ben-tlcmen In colored dress coats. The "unheard "un-heard of gorgconsness," as certain Swedes called It. of the display culled forth a protest from the Svenska 7lor-genblad. 7lor-genblad. the leading daily paper of the Swedish capital. "The wearing of colored col-ored dress coats." said the journal, "has made a most unpleasant impression upon the loss well-to-do classes. Dress coats, if worn at all. should at least bo black." Colored dress coats. It declared, arc the Invention of tho evil one. Both leaders of parliament, too. the journal added, were much disturbed by the king donning so gorgeous a garment, and questions were asked in the Swedish parliament on the subject.