ASSAULT ON A PAGE BOY.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 25 February 1928, Page 5

ASSAULT ON A PAGE BOY.

EX-KAISER'S BROTHER-IN-LAW IN DISGRACE (Received Friday. 7.30 pm.) BERLIN, Feb. 23. The ex-Kaiser's brother-in-law, Alexander Zoubkoff, was arrested at three o'clock this morning at a cafe allegedly for knocking a page boy senseless. Zoubkoff was taken to a police sto tion and released after giving his name and address. Germany is shocked by Zoubkoff's attack on the page boy in the newlyopened Caso Nova bar in the fashionable West End. The newspapers and public are angry and describe him as a barbarian at the bar. They demand his deportation.

He arrived at Caso Nova at midnight, drank heavily, danced with professional dancers and at three o'clock staggered into the lobby where he resented the offer of help by the page boy whom he ordered to make himself scarce. The page boy's explanation was met with a blow which knocked him over, after which it is alleged Zoubkoff proceeded to kick him. The manager and various people joined in the general tussle till- the police arrived. Dr. Strosemann's newspaper says it is ' " positively intolerable that one who contrived to force his way. into the Hohenzollern family should continually be the talk of the town. The sooner he was under stricter supervision the better." ZOUBKOFF FINED FOR PASSPORT IRREGULARITY. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) Received this day, 9.5 a.m. BERLIN, February 24. As a sequel to the cafe incident, the police revealed that Zoubkoff's Russian passport visa expired in December. He was fined £lO for the passport irregularity, but was not punished for the cafe incident, in' connection with which he has not yet been charged.