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Heidelberg-on-Neckar...
TIME erred in geographical detail. Heidelberg Castle looks down on the Rhine valley from its hill above the little tributary Neckar...
...Heidelberg, where flows the Neckar. the Neckar overflowed last week. While Heidelburghers in the lower part of the city sloshed through streets deep in yellow water, slash cheeked korpsstudenten rushed from beer garden to beer garden with the news that the enormous floating bathhouses that line the Heidelberg quaysides were doomed. Thousands went down to the docks to watch...
...bath, a 600-ft. barge whose bottom is pierced with innumerable holes, where Heidelberg men perform their ablutions. With a loud rending of the steel bands that held it to the wharf it broke loose, swung out into the racing yellow Neckar, crashed down on the solid Friedrich Bridge, split into a thousand fragments...
Dramatically, Mr. Bonynge next described to the Commission "a man of vicious and ruthless disposition": Captain Frederick Hinsch of the German Secret Service who, while held in Baltimore on the interned steamship Neckar, manufactured tubes of anthrax cultures in his cabin, then sallied forth to hire Negroes who jabbed the germs into horses and mules bought by the Allies for War purposes. One batch of 4,500 beasts was jabbed so thoroughly that not one reached France alive...