GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1924, Page 2

GERMAN ITEMS

VUrtIRALIAN AND N.Z CABLE ASSOCIATION

GERMAN CULTURE. BERLIN, April I I

Koch, a .schoolmaster, who recently was dismissed for making boy and gill pupils perform gymnastic exercises in the nude, has been reinstated. Koch’s lectures arc spreading his theories, and causing a sensation at Beilin among big audiences. He argues that only unhampered intercourse between children can safeguard

adults against immorality, as naked gymnasts banish the sense of shame from the minds of children.

FORCES IN RUHR. LONDON, Anril 13

The “Daily Telegraph” says it is significant that the French troops in the Ruhr recently were reduced by two thirds to their present total of sixteen thousand. CROWN PRINCE. LONDON, April 13. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent says that the ex-Crown Prince of Gcramny. contrary to his undertaking, has allowed himself to become tbe centre, of a huge demonstration. At Breslau, 4003 people attended a military concert, accompanied by massed bands, and sang “Deutschland Über Alles.” They gave the Crown l’rince a tremendous ovation. Silesia was the birthplace of the German war of lioeration in 1812, and to-day deliberate attempts are being made to repeat historv.

Chauvinistic organisations are most active throughout the province.