DIPLOMAT'S UNTIMELY DEATH.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1639, 4 January 1913, Page 9

DIPLOMAT'S UNTIMELY DEATH.

..'.:. ,- ';.' ?;-: — : , ' .SWALLOWS HIS FALSE TEETH/ 'The busy interchange of proposals towards safeguarding the European 'situation which is now passing between the capitals has been suddenly broken (says the "Daily News") by the untimely death of the diplomat specially/assigned to that work. 'Prince Viazemsky, First Secretary of the'Hussion Embassy in London," arrived in St. Petersburg on a confidential.mission from Count Benckendorff, bringing reports- of conversations with Sir Edward Grey > arid verbal • assurances. Ho was to have remained a few days in' St. Petersburg,, and then to have returned to Londoa' with similar dispatches and assurances from M.Sazonoff. ~ While Count Viazemsky was. lunching at a hotel on November 18 n gold bridge on his upper jaw holding threo false teeth became detached,. and was swallowed,' choking the head of tho respiratory and alimentary canals. The Prince, suffered great pain, which the'doctors vainly tried to assuage. He was taken'to hospital, whera it was found that tho obstruction had passed doepor through tho bronchial zono to the hing cavity, andthat it was absolutely impossible to relieve him. An operation would', have been fatal. The doctors could'only inject heavy doses of morphia to allay'the agony, and Count Viazemsky, who was id years of age, died a'few days later, in the presence of his mother and daughter. MM. Kokovtzeff and Sazonoff have had audiences with the Emperor at Tearskoe Selo. The rift is deepening between tho Pan Slavists and the Court party, whose pacific policy M. Sazonoff represents. The Pa-n.. Slavists are i preparing n nationalist agitation when the Dumameets next week.