Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lady Rose's father was successively Ambassador to Berlin and Vienna before he decided to retire to his country estates at Apthorpe. In Berlin account is made of King Frederick William IV; the Prussian royal children, with whom Lady Rose used to play; Prince Hohenlohe; Count Halzfeldt; Jenny Lind, singer; Meyerbeer, composer; Mendelssohn, famed pianist. In Vienna reference is made to the Emperor Franz Josef; the Empress Elizabeth; Prince Metternich. Journeys from Berlin to Calais, made by post, entailed crossing Belgian territory, and even here Lord and Lady Westmoreland were received with open arms by the Belgian Royal Family. Mention...
That Stresemann has broken definitely with the industrialists and particularly with Herr Hugo Stinnes was revealed when Die Deutsche Allegemeine Zeitung, a Stinnes Berlin daily, was suspended for three days for having attacked the Chancellor...
...situation in Berlin is quieter, the Communist strike having utterly failed. In the rest of Germany, however, fighting and general disorders were reported, particularly at the following places...
...Ruhr. Numerous clashes occurred between half-starved townsfolk and the peasants. Fields were robbed of potato crops and other farm products were stolen by the desperate workers. The situation improved later when the Berlin Government succeeded in sending 809 food cars into the Ruhr, but the repressive tactics of the French are reputed to be making the situation dangerous. Hamburg. Martial law was pro claimed by the Senate on account of rioting on the part of the striking shipyard workers. Fights, resulting in fatal casualties, occurred between the strikers and the police. Lubeck. Communists seized the town and forced...
...Robert Koch (1843-1910), German, director of the Berlin Hygienic Institute, isolator of the tubercle bacillus (1882) and discoverer of tuberculin...