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Repeatedly in British air communiques appeared such place-names as Essen, Dusseldorf, Duisburg, Cologne, "the goods yards at Hamm . . . the Dortmund-Ems Canal." By last week, after hundreds of bomb clusters had been dropped by the R. A. F. into the Ruhr, it would not have been surprising to hear that Germany was speeding the shift of much of its war production to more remote Pomerania, Bohemia, Austria and Silesia, as predicted by Reich Marshal Hermann Goring...
...Hamburg policeman died after two nights of agony. Stabbed in the heart at Essen, a young Fascist died on the spot Meanwhile in Cologne police beat off Fascists who bludgeoned them with iron rods. A Communist was shot dead at Strassfurt, a Fascist at Dortmund, another Communist at Duisburg. Street clashes grew so hot at Kiel that German sailors kept prudently in barracks, cancelled their announced "Parade in Celebration of the 13th Anniversary of the Scuttling of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow." Policemen walked their beats in pairs...
Black Airmail. At Duisburg, Germany, one Hermann Pattberg, rich manufacturer, received a package containing a carrier pigeon and a note ordering him to tie a 5,000-mark ($1,191) bank note to the pigeon and release it. Otherwise he would be killed. Shrewd Herr Pattberg hired a plane and pilot which followed the pigeon and photographed the house on which it alighted. Duisburg police soon arrested the blackmailer. Less smart were Manhattan police last April when a Dr. Louis Alofsin received a pair of pigeons and a demand for $10,000. Police, futile with field glasses on housetops, watched...
Last week when a big subterranean main began to hiss softly at Duisburg, in the Ruhr, 40 people were gassed by the leak and five (including babes) met Death...
...town hall park at Duisburg, Germany, was a statue- "Kneeling Woman"-one of the best works of Sculptor Lehmkuhl. Connoisseurs thought her inspiring, chaste, beautiful. Another group of townsfolk thought that she needed clothing, so they occasionally wrapped her in bedsheets at night. Police were assigned to protect her. Last week some vulgarians ousted the police, dragged "Kneeling Woman" from her pedestal, dismembered her, carried her away in pieces...