KRAKATOA

(6° 9’ 8., 105° 26’ lvolcanic island,’ Strait of Sunda, Sumatra and Java, where one of ‘terrible volcanic eruptions ever tinued occurred, in 1883, Disturbances from May to Sept., culminating explosions of Aug. 26-28, when part of island was blown up; followed enormous ocean waves which destroyed several hundred villages and caused lo ee ne sath Eruption of a eae f: town, Serbia. In vicinity is celebrated monastery of Stude nits a. Pop. 4,000, rolls, | town, E. Siberia. Pop. 65,000. and being ee ee share emhorta: ' OF adneoas rgeois family; 5 studied - engifor neering, but owing to revolutionary tendencies expelled Technological Institute, Petrograd. Thereafter engaged in plots did | against Tsar’s government while contin- | uing his work as electrical engineer. Arrested at Viborg, 1907; he escaped to cap. Berlin, where he obtained employment; of | W@S pardoned, and returned to Petrothe | tad, 1909, becoming director of branch as|0f firm with which he had been as so cia mean | ted in Berlin, and held position until wide | 1918. Following Bolshevist coup, Oct., World | 1917, was offered seat in ministry, but declined. Accompanied Lenin and Trot found sky to Brest-Litovsk to negotiate treaty | With Germany, March 3, 1918, Com12. |™isary of food in Red Army, and later out-| Minister of commerce and industry. fort- | Went to London, May, 1920, as president Polish of Soviet commercial mi ion. He took Aug. part in the Conferences at Genoa and bom Bru els, in 1922, beee eee a pas very | rice, coffee: linen manufactured: good KREMBIFL, A HENRY EDW. ARD to (1854-1923), music critic: 6. Ann Arbor, Michigan; d. New York City. After act1637),|ing as musical critic on the Cincinnati exp on Gazette, from 1874 to 1880, he joined the pictures New York Tribune in the same capacity, own and remained with that journal till his death. He published a number of works on music and was an a ociate edit Grove’s Dictionary of Music one tne 8. S..