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...Hameln (not Hamlin) Germany, which, says legend, was plagued with rats in 1284. A strange piper in motley lured the beasts into the Weser where they drowned. Thinking him a sorcerer, the citizens refused him his pay, whereupon he piped the children of Hameln all away, "into a mountain." Possible basis of truth: the 13th Century Children's Crusade...
...structures beneath falling walls of water. Confused despatches estimated the destruction far above the flood of 1889 when hundreds of Leónites lost their lives. Terrific lightning displays accompanied the deluge in the Lake Constance region, Germany, killing many as the storms swept northward. The rivers Neckar, Elbe, Weser, Oder and Rhine inundated hayfields, vegetable gardens, vineyards, doing inestimable damage. "All men to the dikes," flashed over the country's telegraph lines...
Owing to the overcrowding of a pontoon, 84 Reichswehr soldiers lost their lives in the swift River Weser during Army maneuvers. The Reichstag held a "mourning session," flags were at half mast all over Germany...
Diplomats and strategists do not tire of assuring us that the war, which was begun on the Marne and the Somme, in the Argonne and at Verdun, is being fought out on the Ruhr and the Weser, in Essen and Geisenkirchen. The situation is not unlike that in early 1917, except that now it is England that is proposing the formula of "peace without victory...