SHOWER OF MONEY
Englishmen in Vienna Stop The Traffic JEST ANNOYS POLICE (Received 21, 1.5 p.m.) VIENNA, Apri'l 20. The civic , authorities are incensed at an. escapade by two Englishmen who disorgani'sed traffic in a fashionable quarter by showering sixpences and halforowns from the balcony of an hotel, from which eame laughter and the 'mutter of EngBsh voices. Tho street was eoon blocked by a thousand quarrelling and fighting Viennese. The jesters were astonished. The Viennese were excited ab'out such small coins. The newspaper Weltblatt comments that no doubt the same thing would Kappen if anybody dropped money in the heart of London, adding: "We believe that large crowds of Seotsmen would go directly to London if they heaid of a chance of picking up sixpences in the street."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 80, 21 April 1937, Page 5
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