Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-11-23
ESPERANTO PROGRESS.
Reports From Many Lands Show Re-
markable Advance Of The Lang

yember pu olishes the following For
eign News" showing the growing
interest in Esperanto:
Germany-The official organ of the
German Good Templars recommends
the adoption of Esperanto for use in
thir order.
Belgium-The Mayor of Spa invited
all teachers and other citizens inter-
ested in Esperanto to assemble in the
Town Hall to hear reports concerning
the Seventh International Esperanto
Congress. Two thousand persons as
sembled in response to this.
Erance-At the examination of pu
pills of the city schools of Grenoble,
held recently under the direction of
the social inspector, M. Lajonchere,
ninety-one candidates in Esperanto
presented themselves. OF these,
seventeen girls and fifteen boys were
awarded special prizes.
The hairdressers of France and her
colonies, recently held their second
national congress at Paris, and unan-
imously passed a resolution that. in
view of the international relations of
the organization, and for the sake of
general professional education, the
study of Esperanto be recommended,
and the language adopted as the lam
guage of future congresses.
In places where public notices are
given in a number of langu ages in
addition to the French. one now fire.
quently sees Esperanto alongside of
the national tongues. Similarly, in
journals like "Atmos" the organ of
the Society of Aeronautics and Avia-
tion, whose contents are published in
repetition in several languages. This
is, of course, the preliminary stage of
process by which Esperanto will
entirely supplant the other languages,
wherever publication in a language
beside the national one is required
Spain-The official organ of the
Spanish government has announced
tht Esperanto may now be taught in
all the schools. Thanks for this tri-
umph are due chiefly to the efforts of
Senior San Miolan and Captain Jozefo
Porogordo.
lgaria-Three hundred Roumanian
esperantists recently went on an ex-
cursion to Ruscuk, as a pleasure out
| ing by steamboat. The submayor of
the city formally welcomed these eA-
cursionists.
Samos-The number of pupils who
last year studied Esperanto in the
schools of this principally was ,043,
in accordance with the edict Eof the
local Parliament, signed by Prienin
Andreas Kopasis last winter. His
| Highness, who takes personal inter-
est in the progress of Esperanto, has
| by recent circular expressed a desire
that all teachers on the island prepare
themselves to take the examination
for "Atesto pri Tornado" This will
doubtless have a very gratifying
effect for the "desire" of the Prince
is equivalent to a command.
Persia-A resolution just intro
duced in the Persian Parliament by
Hadji Mira Yahya, deputy from
Teheran, provides for the teaching
of Esperanto in the schools of Per-
STA.
The Persian-American Educational
Society, with headquarters in Wash
ingtn, ID. c., recently received the
news that several classes in Esper-
anto are about to organize in Persia.
In the school of Tarbiat, at Teheran, a
class for the study of the Internation-
al Language is already established.
In the cities of Tahriz and Urmial,
Persia, there is considerable interest
and enthusiasm, and the Persian
| American Educational Society is pro-
viding them with the necessary text
books, This is very good beginning,
and It is hoped that as Abdul BAHIA,
the leader of the Bahai Revelation, has
commanded his three million follow
ers in Persia to study this language,
many classes will be established in
other cities before long.
England-At a recent meeting of
London esperantists, at st. Bride
Institute, the Lord Mayor of London,
Sir Vezey Strong, entered the meet
ing for short time, wearing his for
NAL robes of office, and spoke to the
interested assembly concerning his
recent visit to Austro- Hungary, where
seventeen languages and dialects are
spoken, and the result is great diff
Guilty and discord. In all his public
and privata speeches there, he said,
he advised that Esperanto be adopted
as the inter-tribal language. No doubt
advice of this character, coming from
so prominent a disinterestd source,
will receive especial attention.
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