27 JUNE 1931, Page 13

A Hundred Years Ago

General' Diebitsch died on the 10th instant, at Kleczeco, near Pultusk, a town about thirty miles north of Warsaw. The cause of his death has been variously assigned. The first accounts represented him as falling by his own hand ; the next as a victim of grief and disappointment only ; a third report seemed to implicate his employers in his fate ; the last and official statement attributes to cholera the deliverance of Poland from the Balkan-crosser. The death of Diebitsch is the most important fact in the Polish history of the week. What effect it may have on the subsequent part of the campaign, it is not easy to guess.