The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-30
RUSSIA HAS TIGHT GRIP. ON MONGOLIA 
 Armed Brigands Attack and
 Kill Family DIES AT THE AGE OF 112 Polish Women Fighting for Rights. Schoolboy Fires on Teacher-Sui-
 eide League Formed in
 St. Petersburg
DIES AT THE AGE OF 112
By GEORGE FRAZER

St Petersburg, June -(Special.) )-- Russia's grip on Mongolia and north ern Manchuria Is rapidly tightening to stranglehold. Natives are being drilled and drummed into Muscovite militia and anti-Chinese feeling among the Mongolans is being used as a lever by means of which Russia can pose as the friendly mediator between both parties In official circles here no secret seems to be made of the fact that Rus sia intends 10 continue her advance to the Oriental seaboard south of Siberia, which was checked by the Russo-Jap- anese war. A Russian school for Mon golian children has just been opened at the city of Urga. al the expense of the Mongolian government. By way of encouraging the pupils. each one will receive a fixed weekly payment
 The Ekaterinislav district has just suffered from a murderous attack by armed brigands. The miscreants be- gan by shooting in the head a laborer who refused to lead them to the house of his master. They then entered the homestead of a German colonist named Braun. The master himself was away, but his wife. a woman of 41, and his Eons and daughters were a home. In reply 10 the uefnAndS ana threats Ol the hrigands Madame Braun gave them S16 and all the keys of the house. and the elder daughter game them six shil- 1ings and her gold watch Tie brigands, however insisted on receiving S2500 and begun torturing the women Hearing their screams. the elder son of the house a boy of 16, seized sporting gun and rushed to their assistance but was immediately shot down and nor tally wounded. The bandits then fell upon the women with knives, inflict- ing 14 wounds on the mother and 10 on the daughter, killing them both. The younger son of the family, a boy of 14. made a heroic attempt to defend his relatives, but riddled with with revolver shots stabbed and mutilated. A servant girl, aged 1 l. was also killed. No trace has yet been discovered of the criminals.
 i The position of women in Poland is more or less anomalous and an association styled the Polish Womens Educational league has just been formed, to bring about a recognition of the rights of wom- en in the learned professions and in civic and political matters. Lenberg and Cracow are the two Polish universi- ties. Cracow degree is of no use in Russia while in Russia women are not admitted as eligible for degrees. That Is why so many Russian women study outside of their own country. The de- grees usually aimed at by women are agriculture. philosophy and medicine. Tn 1faiicia a woman may get an appoint nent in a lawyers office at half the pay a man would have for the same work.
 mild rebuke given school boy is likely to cost a French professor at the Academy of Baku his life. The curious nart of this case Is that 1t turns out the gc 1lV Prince Apraxin.
 The boy was lazy and the teacher re- proved him. Instead of accepting the counsels of his tutor in good part the lad pulled out a revolver and fired at the Echoolmaster. The latter tried to escape by fleeing into a passage leading from the class room. The boy followed and on the second shot mortally wounded Prince HApraxin. Then the young reprobate fled from the school and from Baku, but was hpprehended and is now in custody When be was told in the hospital that there vas little hope of his recovery the pro- essor disclosed his identity. requesting hat his relatives in France should be lotified.
 new suicide league has just been tarted in St Petersburg. Its principal AVomoter is said to be very well known \thor The rules bind each member to
 
 truction, and the consequent sensa-
 it brings. Many fashionable men
 women belong to the league, but they
 kp their secrets so well that all at
 npts to catch them at a sitting have
 \ed. Some of those who have joined
 lost courage at the crucial moment,
 retired from the league. They are.
 Ever, bound to silence by terrible
 he death of a polish peasant named
 zweig at the great age of 1l2 recalls
 ie remarkable instances of longevity
 (dzweig was in excellent health until
 was attacked by paralysis. and died
 same day. Bulgaria claims to have
 labitants who are over 15. S3 be-
 (12o and 125 and 2S4 who are more
 ho years old. A landowner named
 Ciornodoliu, died in Roumania in
 ry last at the age of 139 The sea
 |of Cattaro. in Daln1atia, recently
 lnted house and a purse of 5000
 |gnora Maria Bulnice. who is 135 years
 her age being fully attested by civic f church documents. Ireland has a fparkable centenarian in Mrs Mary Bryan of Frankfort Lodge. Windy liar ybour County Dublin, who has just cele- hra tad her