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...Lyons, of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. His father, the Earl of Athlone, is Governor-General of the Union of South Africa. As everyone knows, the Queen and her brother, the Earl of Athlone, were of the Teck Teutonic ducal house of the Kingdom of Württemberg; but by royal British Decree of July 14, 1917, the name of the British house of Teck was changed to Cambridge...
Biologists of the State Medical Department of Württemberg analyzed, last week, blood samples taken from a man, a young woman, a babe. Impersonal, they reported that the man and the young woman belong to the second "blood group," while the child belongs to the fourth. Summing up, they wrote: "A child invariably inherits its blood group characteristics from one or the other parent. As, in the present case, neither the mother's nor the alleged father's blood shows the characteristics found in the child, the only conclusion possible is that parentage by the accused...
This report was accepted last week by the lower criminal court at Ellwangen, Württemberg, when it handed down for the first time a verdict based on the blood test method of determining parentage. The court, thoroughgoing, suppressed all names, to protect the honor of the man unjustly accused, then sentenced the scheming young woman to six months' imprisonment...
Swift "tanks" sped over the hills of Württemberg-they were really motor trucks. Huge "bombers" and darting "pursuit planes" soared aloft-they were only toy balloons towed by motorcyclists. Great "howitzers" and "field guns" rumbled past-they were made of wood. Finally 25,000 soldiers marched, skirmished and countermarched amid clouds of "poison gas"-the gas was a nonpoisonous chemical fog, the latest invention of German scientists. Thus the traditional autumn maneuvres of the German army took place last week with vivid realism, despite the disarming of Germany under the Treaty of Versailles...
President von Hindenburg, attired as a feldmarschall, spent the week at, that picturesque Württemberg spa, Bad Mergentheim, sallied forth daily to watch the maneuvres with Defense Minister Gessler and General von Seeckt. From a hilltop Old Paul von Hindenburg watched in high good humor the game which he once played in such deadly earnest. On the hilltop with him stood a U. S. and a Soviet Russian military observer...