The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-25
RUSS|A'S ATTITUDE
TOWARD FINLAND
Will Be No Turning Back in
Legislative Plans
OVATION TO RUTHOvSKY
Makes brilliant Appearance In sThs
Lake of Swnnso Before Fashiona-
BILE Audience In st. Petersburg.
Poison Fish XIII Peasants.

st. Petersburg, April 2A-(Specia.)-
There will be no drawing back by Rus
STA in the matter of dealing with Fin
land
That can be put down as certain. The
Russian view is that with the strong
anti-Russian feeling existing In Finland
that country under the old conditions was
a menace to the peace and safety of the
empire which could not be tolerated.
I understand monster petition is be-
ing prepared in Finland to be presented
to the Car. praying him to reconsider
| his decision. 1t is virtually certain. how
ever. that Finnish opposition to the pro-
jected legislation Will be strictly con-
fined within constitutional bounds, talk
ing the form of passive resistance.
Many Firms now acknowledge that the
| declarations made by their friends among
! jurists abroad against Russia's legal
claim to introduce the legislative measure
| complained of damaged instead of help
! ing the cause.
| There Is the highest authority for stat
ing that neither the petition nor resist
| ance, whether passive or active, Will
| have any effect.
| The official Russian position was re-
| Gently outlined by the Novo yremya In
| this language:
FINLAND enters into the composition
| Of the Russian empire as an integral por-
ton thereof: consequently sso-Finnish
| relations do not at any point touch the
| domain of International law. Besides. 1t
| Is question not of Finiand's complaints,
| but of Russia's legitimate claims. Fin
| nish laws deny to common subjects of tho
empire the rights conferred upon Firms
In other parts of the empire.
again, the Films do not wish to par
ticipate In the common imperial expen-
diture for national defense. They refuse
to protect the empire with the blood OF
their sons, as Russia defended them DUR
ing the Crimean war. The Films. too,
have deliberately employed gauge on
the railways which prevents Russian roll
ing stock from entering the principality."
Appearances are deceptive In the case
Of Marie Ruthovsky. The fashionable
audience that crowded the great theatre
In the Polish capital the other night gave
her an ovation as she appeared as the
prima baIlorina in 1.-THE Lake of Swans
ballet for which Tchaikovsky wrote the
4 sxnuisite music.
They saw she was young, very pretty
and mistress of her difficult art.
She performed the exacting ana conn
plicated dances of the princess as though
nothing In the world was easier. Sho
roused the house to enthusiasm by the
grace with which she did the Aouettes,
Us the critics call spinning around on
ono toe an Incredible number of times.
The Polish papers. indeed. record the
fact that she went round 80 times with
out stopping.
AS she moved across rosy lake In .
fairy shin with the beautiful prince and
Tchaikoysky's enchanting music foated
through the theatre, nobody would have
Imagined that the ballerina was givl
with a most serious view OF life. But
the fact is. her object In givin@ perfor T.
ances in Warsaw was to make enough
onev IN continue her ieea studies a4
tho University OF st. Petersburg.
she has set her heart on becoming .
barrister. Unhappily, the Russian ssn-
ate has recently decided that womao
cannot be admitted to the bar Mile.
Rrthoysky will make a new effort -
gain victory for her sex. and to become
Russia's first woman advocate.
If she fails she has decided to enter
the medical profession and will study
medicine at the university. She adorGD
dancing and will not neglect her art. but
Intends to combine a serious profession
with the more frivolous one she now
adorns.
II A telegram from Simbsk announces
that $50 peasants in different villages u
the Ardatoff district have died from pots
, oping by bad fish bought from an itinees
ant salesman.