NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2015, 14 August 1919, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Berlin Town Council has decided (hat all busts of the ex-Kai-ser and all his portraits, as well as those of other members of the Imperial Family, shall be removed from public offices and schools. The whole collection will be stored in attics in the municipal buildings. Mr H. R. Palmer, a Westmorland man, resident of'Bornu under the Nigerian Government, has just completed a journey from West Africa to East Africa through the Soudan zone. Ho is the first Englishman to make this great land journey, which covered !,(!()() miles and occupied four months. An inmate of Sunderland Lunatic Asylum tipped the first, second, and third horses in the Derby, and also won a large prize offered by a weekly newspaper. “I tipped Grand Parade,” he said to the medical superintendent, “because it was of good stoclc, Buchan because it had a good trainer, and Paper Money because it had the best jockey.” A sad tragedy is reported from Neuchatel. A French soldier, aged 24, who had been fighting since 1914, and wore several decorations for bravery, presented himself to (he French guard at the Swiss frontier, stating that ho must visit his fiancee in Switzerland, whom he had not seen for three years. When the guard refused, the soldier said that he was going, even if he were shot. “I must see her,” he concluded. The guard’s persuasions were useless, and as the determined fiance was crossing the frontier he was shot dead.