The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-20

to use all it's power to prevent Finland
 from competing in the Olympic games
 at Berlin next year as a nation. Gen era1 Steyn, the Governor General, will soon issue decree dissolving the Fin niSh Olympic committee and if Rus
 sian of1cialdom has it's way the Fin
 nish athletes will not be able to ap-
 pear at Berlin unless they enlist under the Russian flag.
 This action is partly due to the gen
 eral Russian policy of .suppressing na- tiona1 aspirations, partly to a desire to have Russia make a better. showing at Berlin than she did at. Stockholm in 1912. All who attended the games at Stockholm will remember the contrast
 between the splendid delegation from
 the little Baltic province of Finland,
 and the far inferior representatives of
 the Russian nation. hThe Films ap-
 peared under their own flag as a
 separate body, with a great assemiblage
 Of athletes, gynnasts, and swimmers
 while sthe Finnish women who took
 part in the two last branches of the
 spots were, like the women from the
 other Scandinavian countries, one of
 the most attractive features of the
 occasion!
 Among the eighteen prize winning
 nations Finland stood fourth with 5 2
 points,-only Sweden, the United
 States and Great Britain beating her,
 -Wll1l6 ELuSSlSs1 ranked only I11I60ILn
 with six points to her credit. Through
 out the meeting there was constant friction. between the Films and Rus
 sians. The Russians. resented the.ap- pearance of the flag of Finland among the others as though she was an in dependent nation. The trouble culnnis mated in a scene in the royal box at the stadium during the evening con 1 cert of singing societies., when the Fin | nish choirs sang one of their national l hymns which contained references to | Russia as the ttoppressor,'' and a Rus 1 sian Grand Duke with. his officers felt I called upon to leave the box with l ostentation.
 whether the Russian government will be able to prevent the Films from running their own show at Berlin re-
 mains to be seen. M. Isvolsky, the Russian Ambassador at Paris is said to have requested the Olympic com rnittee to refuse to recognize Finland or to receive the Finnish delegate, Baron von Willsbrand, but his argu- ment was without result The only way by which Russian officials can carry their point would be to prevent Films from going to Berlin. If they could induce them to, go under Sthe Russian banner. Russia. would be one of the formidable competitors among the nations.
 The city council of Vienna is pre- posing to float a. loan of $75, GOO. .o0OIe at once, to be expended mainly upon the development of existing municipal ownership undertakings. It is propos- ed to spend $3O.ooo,OOo on subways1 around the congested districts of the inner city, where up to the present there has been only an Indifferent service of horse omnibusses- The business, which the city purchased at about fifty cents on the dollar from a bankrupt private company, has been at a great loss each year. Vienna's ex- periments in other fields of municipal ownership however have been suc- cessful The electric light and power plant have paid a clear profit of two millions in the past year, a return of about II per cent. on the city's investment,7out 1t has been done in, the face of. general complaints that is dearer in Vienna than in almost any large city in Europet
 The battle cruiser Ibuki and the scout cruiser. Chickuma, which have been selected to participate in the leave Japan for the United States on or about the 18th of October. Both the Ibuxi and Chickuma. were built in Japanese yards and will suffice to show the progress of the Japanese in-l dustry in the line of shipbuilding,
  old type, having been built in 1907.
 The Chickuma is a fine ship. She is to be second to no other vessel of foreign navfes as an ideal scout ship. Her displacement is only 4,450 tons. The Ibuki is larger and will. serve well for the receptions which will be held on board.
 Captain -Kanji Kato, who has been made the commanding officer of the Ibulxi, is one of the alblest officers in1 l once designated as probable candi- date for the post of the vice minister of marine.
 Captain Sakamoto of the Chikuma for a, long time occupied the post of director of military affairs at the na- wy headquarters and is well acquaint- ed with the formalities of foreign manners and etiquette.
 The warships will proceed directly to Hampton Roads and Joining there with the American fleet. and warships of the other powers, will pass through the Panama Canal to San Francisco.
 Alfred Rustem Beys des Bilinski, who has just succeeded to the post of Turkish Ambassador to the United States, has received widespread com in the Turkish newspapers because he recently embraced the MosIem faith. He has Polish blood on his fathers side, and his was Miss Sandison of an aristocratic British fam fly, which has, been settled in Con- stantinople for two or three. genera tions. Rustem Bey, upon becoming converted to Mohamm edanisrn, sub- stituted the name Ahmed for Alfred. The Sultan received the neophyte with great favor and presented him k with a jewelled watch and chaplet
 Rustem Bey has recently been a contributors to British magazines on European political topics. He has had a. varied diplomatic career, in U cluding service at Washing gton sew era1 years ago as counsellor of the : embassy. During the regime of Alp dull Hamid, when the Turkish dipIo- mats away from home found their pay day hollow dream, Rustem Bey