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German-American Vines. So unusual is mob violence in Germany that the whole Fatherland was shocked last week, when 5.000 Rhineland peasants sullenly surrounded the District Court House at quaint Germersheim. Shaking gnarled fists, brandishing keen pruning knives, they behaved exactly like U. S. citizens about to lynch...
Stirred by complaints from the district, the Bavarian Minister of Agriculture at Munich recently ordered all American vines near Germersheim destroyed. That roused the mob, As it grew uglier last week 150 State police dashed up in motorcars, formed a cordon around Germersheim Court House. Doubling in fury, the mob broke the cordon, stoned and stormed the neat brick structure...
...Landau* a French officer was tried by a French Court Martial last week for killing a German citizen and wounding two others last September at Germersheim (TIME, Oct. 11) in the occupied Rhineland. The Court acquitted the accused, Lieutenant Rouzier, of manslaughter on the grounds that he had fired in self-defense when attacked by the Germans with canes. Said the Lieutenant with cold formality in speaking of the man he killed: "If I have committed reprehensible acts I regret them. I likewise regret if they have reflected on my country, my colonel and my regiment." The two Germans wounded...
Argumentative Murder. At Germersheim in the Rhineland a group of German civilians were drawn into a brawl with French officers as a result of the revival of War guilt talk last week. One Lieutenant Roucier. shot and killed one Herr Emil Mueller by way of thrusting home the assertion that Raymond Poincare did not start the World...
...Mayor of Germersheim promptly appealed to the League of Nations, demanded that all French troops be withdrawn from his town, lest further citizens be shot. After a day of excitement, the incident lapsed into insignificance. Vain Appeal. Premier Poincare, in no complacent mood after the events of the week, was approached by a delegation representing 4,000 onetime Government employes who have been dismissed in the interest of national economy. Two hundred of the jobless are former mayors, 600 were employed by the Ministry of Justice, 2,200 were dismissed from the department presided over by Premier Poincare himself...