BAVARIAN BRAVOES.

Shannon News, 17 April 1923, Page 4

BAVARIAN BRAVOES.

BRITISH VISITOR- MOBBED. . London, March 14. An Australian, accompanying a. British officer and his wife to a concert in aid of the Ruhr unemployed, held at the (hotel at Avhich thei officer Avas staying, in Gannish Partenkirschen, a Bavarian winter resort, had an unenviable experience a fortnight ago. The British visitors had been invited to the concert, had accepted, and had subscribed to the unemployment fund liberally.

While they were paying their bill the orchestra struck up “Deutschland Liber Alles.” Not half a dozen bars had been played, and the visitors had no time to realise what was happening before a crowd of excited Germans hustled them from the table, angrily demanding why they were not standing when tiie national anthem was being played. Without waiting for an explanation or apology, the officer’s wife was-drag-ged to the ground, her necklace av>us torn ofr, and her neck badly bruised. Her pocket-book, which had been on tliei table before the disturbance, and which contained a considerable sum, disappeared and was not recovered.

The Australian, proceeding to his home, Avhicli was some distance from the hotel, was followed by an angry crowd, which attacked him, inflicting nasty wounds on the lieiad. Early next morning the police asked the British visitors to leave the hotel at once, ancl the 'management refused to serve them with breakfast before they left. The attack lias been reported to the British Consul at Munich.