GERMAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 December 1927, Page 3

GERMAN NEWS.

(Australian it N.Z. Cable Association

ZOUBKOFF’S CONDITION BERLIN, Dec. 7. Zoubkoff, alien conveyed to the palace was found to have sustained minor injuries to bis face and slight concussion. Ilis back is uninjured. Princess Victoria applied for an injunction to prevent the publication of the liook entitled “I.ove and Romance of Victoria Alexander.’’ AN EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR. (Received this day at 11.25 a.in.) BERLIN, Dec. 7. Perhaps the most amazing attempt to break a record is being carried out at Springs Ground, Stuttgart, where a DusseldtJrf resident, claiming the knowledge of the methods of the Indian fakers, was buried alive, and will be dug up on Saturday when the voluntary internment will have I 120 hours. The experiment was carried out under proper precautions to prevent fruad, police and doctors being strongly represented. Before stepping into the coffin the man ate substantially and was overhauled by doctors and search-

ed for beef extract, lozenges and oxygen flasks and other things. Inconsistent with the claims lie thereon nonchalantly drove a half dozen hatpins in his cheeks, ears and neck, and calmly lay in the coffin, enveloped in a band of cloth ten yards long, the ends being sealed to prevent removal. The authorities insisted that a small wooden shaft, nine inches square should be left in order that the face he visible through the glass top. When the coffin was lowered, the grave was filled in.