CAFE OWNER’S BODYGUARD

Hokitika Guardian, 6 July 1929, Page 8

CAFE OWNER’S BODYGUARD

“ARMED” AGATNST FORMER TENANT.

BERLIN, May 16

I succeeded in entering Delphi this afternoon and in speaking with the leader of the brave men who have routed and driven out the enemy that was holding the place, and who stand on tne alert day and night to repel any attempt to recapture it.

The building into whose uttermost reeessess I penetrted stands beneath Prussian and not Attic skies, and is not ail ancient Temple of Apollo buta modern Temple of Bacchus—a restaurant

When opened a little more than a year ago it was one of the glories of Berlin, an immense place in which to mt deliciously and drink exquisitely while dancers charmed the eye and music the ear.

Suddenly the doors were closed and 300 hundred cooks an waiters went away. The astonished public learned that •Joe Sclineid, the Viennese proprietor had been arrested in Paris at the indignation of the Berlin police on suspicion of fraud. The o’vm*r of the building, who had .pven tlio Viennese a 15 years’ lease let it again, and it was to be reopened this summer. Both of them reckoned without the Viennese. / 20 STOUT FELLOWS. A few days ago, having proved bis innocence of the charges brought agains him and haying extricaed himself, as he told me, from the toils of his enemies, he came to the | lace with 20 stout fellows and drove the proprietor and his minions out of it.

“I was tired of appealing first to one court and then to another,” he said. “Just to save further time, I went to a sports club and got 20 hefty fellows, including some boxers mrd they came and chucked out the new proprietor and his servants. You

should have seen them lift the porter —when lie showed an inclination to resist—out of the window!”

“And the police?” I asked. “Will do nothing," he said “They declare that this is a private quarrel in which they cannot interfere.

“We have arms to repel attack,” lie added, and glanced significantly at the guard who had held me up at the