POLICE SABRES IN BEHLIN.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2118, 8 April 1914, Page 8

POLICE SABRES IN BEHLIN.

MORE LAWLESSNESS THAN IN : LONDON Bsrlift'a mdrfatigabJe Police President. ] B.err Von. Jagow, has discovered <stat.es the Berlin cofrespondent of the "Daily Mews"), that Berliraers who .have visited London compare the Beflin police unfavourably with tho London constables, Tko official Wolff Agency accordingly reads Berh'ners a lessen on the test "I'ou'tget the police you deserve." '. . In a fiJcssagb to tho public, Herr Von Jagow" points out that "tho task, of preserving order is much h-arckf in Ber i lhi thaa in London," and quotes as .1 terribli? example of lawlessness in Berlin and of the necessity for tho polico to use their sabre on occasions,, tho case o£ Johann Przygoda, tho driver of a heavy springless dray, who drove at "an excessively fast trot" towards, the busy AloxanderplatZj.in tho centre of the city, disregarding a ( policeman's warning hand. The policeman seized . the Teiiis and stopped the dray, hut. as soon as he released them tlio drives - slashed t!so horses and galloped off. The policeman jumped on a tram-car aisd cauglvt ug tlie dfay. Thereupon tlio driver descended and hii .tho pojicetnan with his fists. The constable drew his sabre and , "drew it through the driver's hand." Th© latter, despite his wound, continued to'hit tlio policeman, who accordingly cut hini down with a stroke over the head. Tho driver's brother, who tried td come to his assistance, also bad "his resistance broken by two cats on the shoulder and lead." Herr Von Jagow must look deeper for tlio difference between the attitude of tlio policemen of London and Berlin to drivers. The- Berlin police are re* canted by a considerable number of inhabitants as part of the armed forces opposed to civilians, and nob th« protectors of the public, safety. Tints tlio Priissian police appear to the publie iiierely as part of the, suppressive machinery of an oligarchial regime, and they meet with opposition even when their mcasiiree aro justified by con* skleratioJjs of public safety. Horr Von jagow has yet to learii that "ho who only rules by terror (Joetli grievous wrong."

A fine rorfci of nn airsliip of tlia Zeppolin type, ivliieh took tlirco weeks to make, was placed ifl tlio luneheonroom at the Law Courts the other dny, says nil English paper. Over two yards in -ißfcgtb, it has been made by en* af tho chefs «mpU>y«d in the courts, aiul is composed entirely of cooking ingredients. The model, which hours the British flag, is fitted \\p with wireless acriat?, &\u\ also with senrcWigiits. Tliis is not the. first time that this ehef lias proved his ingenuity. A KtHo wliile ago lie made- tho model of. aH aeroplane ftad also a replica of tho Tower Bridge. A journalistic curiosity is tlio "Independent," of St. Petersburg- (Florida.)* "tho Sunshine CitJ<" To show its belief in the town's title, the "Jnoojicndeiit" offers to give afray its entire issue on any day on which the sun tes not shiiic upon its office Mate three in the afternoon. Its faith has been justified by tho ted that it has only been called upon to fulfil} its offer nineteen times m three years, '