The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-10-09
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AS an aftermath to the Albert scan.
dial, Copenhagen correspondent
sends us the following:
For some time past there has been
constant cropping up of scandals
with resulting disappearance of
prominent men, or, at any rate, talked.
about people. The financial difficult
ties have been the cause of the facts
coming to light and the financial
"krasch" of last fall the immediate
cause Of their difficulties. The rot
tenness that has been revealed is ap-
palling. The involved financial trans.
actions would be bad enough, but In
most cases it has been mixed up with
revolving stories of high life," and
shows wide spread contagion of the
disease which the Germans emphati-
cally term "offense against paragraph
It's, criminal CODE" The cases Of
Germanot, George Peterson and Billy
Thalbitzer are only few examples
of the most talked about ones.
The curious feature of the whole
matter is that the police, although
apparently we'll aware of the preva-
lence OF peculiar forms of vice and of
those implicated, have done nothing to
stop the absconders from getting
away. The Kristeligt Dagblad, which
used to be the court organ up till some
time ago, has just made a fierce at
tack ON the authorities for letting the
fellows of, and hints that considera-
ton for the highest in the land has
been the deterrent. This, coming
upon the report that the engagement
of Prince Harald, the younger brother
OF King Haakon, and Princess Helen
of Glucksburg, has been broken OF
in consequence of receipt of anony.
nous letters, leads people to suspect
all sorts of things.
Germandt's case was one Of the first
to attract general attention. He ap-
pears to have been nobody in particu-
lar, and it was all the more remarka.
BILE that he possessed very swell
friends. Officially. he was a journalist
and correspondent of the Stockholm
Dagblad. That comparatively modest
position did not prevent him being in
vited to the royal banquet during EN-
peror Williams visit, to dine with the
kaiser in fact. That must have been
too great an honor, for Immediately
afterward the storm broke out and
exit Gernanot. But how the deuce did
he get such coveted invitation?
George Peterson should probably be
called financier. He was up to his
neck in the mess. The latest case is
that of Herr Billy Thalbitzer, which
sounds like music hall name, but
he was actually Greek consul general
and flash business man" A we'll
known man about the town with a
large income which, however, was
never large enough by a good deal.
His financial affairs were inextricably
mixed up with those of George Peter.
son and other defaulters. The moral
end also.
The fact of his being Greek consul
general makes the case important.
Scandal swarms with consuls, whose
jobs are mostly opera boutfe affairs;
from st. Domingo, Liberia, etc., and
are taken on only for the sake Of q
handle to the name, but q Greek con-
sui in Copenhagen is bound to get
quite few meals at the palace on &C
count of the near relationship between
the two sovereigns. He should.
be selected with discretion.
He was not. He is now supposed to
be in New York. The people are
waiting for the next case, the religious
papers even demanding fresh mate
w. Odland.
The recent death at Stockholm Of
Laura Fitinghof, the noted author.
has caused general sorrow. She was
sixty-six years Of age, and for the past
thirty years has been busy with her
pen, writing books that have given her
a secure place among the popular
Swedish writer's. Some Of her more
we'll known novels are: IA Little
World Among the CraEs," when the
Buds egin to sprout," Spring All.
"The Old Peninsula" etc. She Wa
q woman Of sympathetic dispositina.
and her good deeds won her IL lovo
Of Ill who knew her.