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...documents revealed a plan to put an artillery barrage around the workmen's district in Hamburg while the Monarchists marched in and took possession. It is also alleged that the Reichswehr is in close touch with the Monarchist movement and has to a limited extent been coöperating with...
Europe. The recent excavations at Pompeii, under Prof. Vittorio Spinazzola, have made greater progress than all previous ones. To date, 530 meters of street have been uncovered by modern methods, which preserve the architecture intact. Old-fashioned excavation was carelessly done by workmen, digging into buildings from below and bringing valuable material down in ruins. Today ashes and rubbish are removed from above, walls and roofs are strengthened and supported, and all details are preserved, including the brilliant original colors of the frescoes...
...Tiber's muddy banks have yielded up a colossal statue of Minerva. It was discovered by workmen on the site of the old Emporium which was a landing place for marbles shipped from Greece to Imperial Rome. Antiquaries declare that the statue might have been dropped into the mud by Roman stevedores...
When the angry crowd outside saw themselves thus shut out, they broke into a riot, with wild yells of " Down with the management!'' The noise sounded in the auditorium, but Toscannini, growing furious, relentlessly continued the performance. Several score of workmen who had contrived to get into the gallery, heard and heeded the protesting yells of their comrades outside. They grew indignant, and joined the chorus of exterior chorus. " Down with the management!" the howl from the galleries drowned the music. But such was the respect inspired by Toscannini that the disturbers in the theatre amplified their cries. "Down with...
...Hugo Stinnes. Herr Stinnes is not difficult to approach. Mr. Lee spoke with him for two hours in one of his hotels which bore signs at the door, French and Belgians Will Not Be Accommodated. Stinnes said that his workmen in the Ruhr continually urge him to allow them to rise up and throw the French neck and crop out of the country, but he always counsels nonresistance." Peaceful though the occupation of the Rhineland may look on paper, it is real war in the feeling it arouses in the people of the territory...