Word: dortmunder
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Despatches ask us to believe: A Dortmund drayman lost an action in a law court. He was very angry, named his two donkeys after his two lawyers, painted their names on the animals' blinders, drove through the streets of Dortmund. The sensitive lawyers sued for defamation of character. The drayman swore that he meant no harm. The Judge asked: "If you had a third donkey, what would you name him?" The drayman retorted: "That's no business of the fourth." Thirty days in jail was the Judge's kick...
...second greatest* mining catastrophy known in Germany occurred in the Minister Stein† mine at Dortmund when 200 or more miners perished in an explosion of fire-damp...
President Ebert telegraphed his condolences to the Mining Superintendent of Dortmund, informed him that 50,000 marks ($12,500) from the President's emergency fund had been placed at his disposal for relief of widows and orphans of the victims. Chancellor Luther cut short a political visit to Baden to dash to Dortmund. Telegrams poured in from many notables...
...French and Belgian governments, desirous of giving immediate and spontaneous proof of their will to peace and their confidence in the engagements freely entered into, decide that they will order, on the day following the definite signature of the London agreement, the military evacuation of the zone of Dortmund and the territories outside that of the Ruhr occupied since...
...does not really matter whether as Mr. Jentsch thinks, French plots have brought on the Separatist movement or whether, as Professor Feuillerat claims, it is all due to the innate Rhenish hatred for Prussia. But it is interesting to realize that in Aix and Bonne, in Coblenz and Dortmund there is a struggle in progress the result of which is nearly as important for the future of France and Germany as were the battles of the Marne and Verdun. The balance of power has shifted since 1914 from Germany to France and England, forever anxious to keep the scales even...