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...onto a platform. One by one a trap door opened beneath their feet, and they went dangling into eternity. They were the men convicted of the murder of the British sirdar, Sir Lee Stack (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924). Six of the men, all youths, went bravely to their doom. The seventh an older man, able lawyer, brains of the conspiracy, struggled and wept. An eighth man, convicted, had his sentence commuted at the last minute because he had confessed promptly after his capture and had facilitated the capture of the others...
Undoubtedly the continual growth of the Monarchist idea in Germany is responsible for last week's demonstration, to which may be added the recent visit of the ex-King to the ex-Kaiser at Doom. But if his loyal followers expected an imperial message from the exile at Doom, they were disappointed; Friedrich Augustus, as also might have been expected, said nothing. Nevertheless, when he reviewed his "troops" (Monarchists in uniform) he did something which no ex-monarch in Germany has done since...
Said, so rumor averred, ex-Kaiser Wilhelm to ex-König Friedrich August of Saxony, who was visiting the ex-All Highest at Doom: "Here's hoping." Echoed the ex-König: "Here's hoping." Each was hoping that the other would regain his throne...
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...Elizabeth, N. J., one Robert Reidt, "Apostle of Doom," rose up in a theatre, prophesied the end of the world by a war which would begin Nov. 11, "between the white and yellow races, ... so terrible that even women will be drafted . . . the first evidence of this situation was shown when the U. S. gave women the vote...