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...raid on Wiener-Neustadt climaxed a week of diversified air attacks over Greater Germany. As the nights grew longer the offensive arc expanded steadily. Early in the week British and Canadian heavy bombers gave the twin Rhineland industrial cities of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen their 57th aerial pounding of the war. On the same night fast Mosquito bombers struck at the Ruhr and the Fighter Command jabbed at airfields and railways in France and the Low Countries...
...reads: "As Heidelberg is occupied by French troops, the funeral procession was deprived of any military pomp" (TIME, Mar. 16, Page 11). Heidelberg is my Alma Mater. I studied there from 1918 to 1921. To my knowledge, no French troops ever were stationed there; the nearest they came was Ludwigshafen on the left side of the Rhine...
Because they refused to work nine hours a day, the proprietors of the Baden Aniline Dye Works at Ludwigshafen and Oppau dismissed 20,000 of their workers. At Hamburg, the City Fathers invented "beggars' bonds" which charitably inclined persons are to give to mendicants instead of cash. The idea is to prevent the professional beggar from earning more than he deserves. Each bondholder will have his past looked into before the Municipality parts with any cash...
Forty-one lives have been lost by the floods in the vicinity of Ludwigshafen, Germany...