The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-30
HEINRICH KRONEN IS GIVEN SENTENCE Tries To Extort Money From
 The KruppS PRISONERS ESCAPE JAIL One Years Record for Russian Elm pire Is 6462-Many Newspapers
 Established In Turkey In One Week.

Berlin August 29.-For attempting to extort a large amount of money from Herr Krupp von Bohlen- -Holback, the head of the Krupp iron works. and Herr August Tryssen, the iron and coal mag nate, a clerk named Heinrich Kronen has been sentenced to two months i'm prisonment.
 Kronen, after embedding $250 from his employer at Essen. fled to London. When the money was all gone he wrote to his father a pitiful letter asking for assistance, which was curtly refused. He hen wrote to Herren Krupp and Thyssen long letters. signed "The In ternational Anarchists League" and telling them that the league had de- cided to blow tn em up with dynamite unless they sent s250O to a London post office. The police were informed and sent Inspector Neufeind to London, Kronen fell into a simple trap and was arrested
 The Russian prison commission re- ports that during the last year 6462 prisoners escaped from jails all over the empire
 Of these s241 got away from prison wardens of military escort on the way
 
 Fifty-one escapes were due to bribery and 4S0 were effected by the use of eX- plosives or mining under prison walls. In the prison at Akatuy, beyond Irkutsk, eight secret passages mined for escape were discovered.
 Some idea of life in Russian prison may be gathered from the sub-headings of prison incidents"-events of suf- ficient importance to be reported to superior authority. There were II cases of officials murdered by prisoners. three of attacks prisons from the outside; 133 of disorders" inside pris- ons which signifies the introduction of soldiers to restore order by firing on and bayoneting right and left. Two hundiHd and forty cases of at tempted escase were discovered betimes; 42 prisoners were murdered by their fel- 1ows-a frequent punishment for spying among Russian prisoners; attempts to set prisons fire numbered seven; fires 27 and there were 42 cases of suicide.
 In attempts to recapture escaped pris- oners and in restoring order'' by armed force 97 were killed and 14O wounded in the course of the year.
 No fewer than 265 newspapers have been established in the last week in Fur key as a result of the suppression of een- sorship.
 I've are going to make clean sweep of Ali Baba and the young Turk orators in the street, This slight variation on the Arabian Nights" has reference to the corrupt occupants of the government offices, called "Bab Ali' and containing 400 rooms. "But We will show Europe; the orators add, that the Turk is gentleman and manage his affairs as quietly as the coo-headed Englishman.
 The Prussian General, Baron Von Der Goltz, formerly instructor to the Turk ish army, publishes, in the Neue Frele Press, long political and military essay on the new Turkey and her army He begins by declaring that as Turkey had no political parties from whom it could have been expected that they would avert the empire in Europe and foreign armed intervention were apparently imminent The only hope of effectual Interference with this state of things lay with the army. The officers corps, says Baron Von Der Goltz, represented the greatest amount of modern education and en- lghtenment to be met with in any single class in Turkey. The general devotes a high eulogy to the spirit of the army and the officers who, against heavy odds such as constant toll a colonial war in Africa and Arabia, the actual state of war in Macedonia, the hardships caused by the incompetence of the commssariat and moral depression. did not shrink rom tnelr duty, but when the efficiency of the army appeared to them impaired by the growing suspicion that whatever they did in order to train their men or to fulfill their regular service was mere ly a symptom of military conspiracy when even target practice was stopped and when some of the best and most ac- tive and intelligent officers were arrest, ed, then only began the military revolt at Monastir. The quick change of front of he UVh cd to