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...trust in the character and fidelity of the German people. They are waiting, and so am I." At Leipzig a street is to be named after Walther Rathenau, famed German Jew, who as Foreign Minister was murdered by anti-Semite fanatics in 1922. Thus ordained the City Fathers...
...Saar region temporarily ceded to France. This is an increase of 3,350,000 over the 1919 census. Berlin remains the second largest European city, with 3,900,000 inhabitants. Hamburg is the second largest German city, with just over a million. Köln (Cologne), München, Leipzig and Dresden have each over 600,000 and Breslau exceeds the 500,000 mark...
...Berlin, Samson Koerner, heavyweight champion pugilist of Germany, stood upon a railroad platform, about to depart for Leipzig to box Champion Clementel of Switzerland. His sparring partner, one Max Dickmann, wished him aufwiedersehen, put his arms about him, gave him a hug. One of Koerner's ribs snapped. The bout was postponed...
Died. Admiral Sir Frederick C. Doveton Sturdee, 66, in command of the victorious British fleet at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in November, 1914, where he sank the German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Leipzig, Nürnberg which had previously defeated a British squadron at Coronel, off the coast of Chile; in Camberley, Surrey, England, of inflammation of the brain...
...German Cheka Trial, which has occupied the Supreme Court at Leipzig for several months (TIME, Feb. 23), was ended. Three Bolsheviki were condemned to death, 13 others were sentenced to imprisonment for terms varying between 6 months and 15 years for murder and conspiracy to overthrow the German Republic. When the three men heard their death sentences, they cheered for Moscow...