FRANCIS KOSSUTH DEAD

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2159, 27 May 1914, Page 5

FRANCIS KOSSUTH DEAD

,■' HUNGARY'S PATRIOTIC POLITICIAN. • By Telcgraph-Presa' Asaocktion-Oopyriijlrt . _ . ,■ . Vienna, May 25. _Francis Kossuth, the well-known .Hungarian noble and patriotic politician, is dead. • Francis Kossuth, of Udfard, was a son of. Louis Kossuth, late Governor of Hungary. ,_laken prisoner at the age of eHit .yaws'by t.ho Anstrians, lie was kepMu prison ns a child at the fortress of Prcsburg; when liberated he was—still a child—exiled hy the Emperor of Austria When m IS9-1,. Louis Kossuth died his . eon acquiesced in the edict of his countrymen to take back to Hungary the Teniains of Jus father, which were received unprecedented funeral..honours, Ho entered •, Parliament, and afterwards became the • acknowledged leader of the Party of Independence. His influence in the country and his popularity rose rapidly, and when the Hungarian Parliament resisted the encroachments on constitutional rights .. he became leader of tho coalesced parties forming a majority of tho House, no was a member of tho Wekorle Cabinet in 1896. M. Kossuth was a (rood musician, 1 an efficient sculptor, and oil colour pnint- ! or. He spoke, read, and wrote six European languages.