“SWINE” A COMPLIMENT
GERMAN COURT DI'.CISION. LONDON, April t. It is not flu offouttce to call a Gorman a “swine,” accordilif; to a decision of a German court-, says the Uorlin correspondent of lno “Daily Mail. Professor Brunner, \cho was sort ing with the Berlin police, was transferred to Munich, and a. newspaper concluded an uncomplimentary article with the remark: “Henceforth Munich will have swine.” Professor Brunner proceeded against the writer and the editor of the newspaper, who contended that the expression “have swine 1 meant have luck.”
The judge decided that there had been no intention to compare the professor to an unclean animal, and dismissed the charge.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1923, Page 3
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109“SWINE” A COMPLIMENT Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1923, Page 3
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