IRON CROSS FOR DOGS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 141, 17 February 1915, Page 3

IRON CROSS FOR DOGS.

HOW GERMANY’S HONOUR WAS SAVED AND EVERYBODY LAUGHED. Germany’s honour is saved. Wlmt was condemned as an insult to tlie "on derful Iron Cross turns out to he—an ordinary dog license. Por days Geneva was under a clout, which threatened to burst in 11 storm of indignation over Switzerland and its neutrality. It arose when a patriot.c side city complained in a wrathful letter to the fvonstanzer Zeitung that imitations of the famous crosses were being manu fa erred in Geneva, sold at 50 centimes apiece, and hung on the necks of dogs. The Germans and pro-Germans mace up their minds that those responsible for the outrage must be pun siol.. A. special baud of secret police was appointed to make a thorough, inquiry and arrest both the dogs themselves and the irreverent dogs that owned them. But not a single man or dog was arrested. After an exhaustive research the secret police stumbled upon the fact that the dogs -wore the offending pieces of metal merely to show their registration numbers, and that crosses of the same pattern word issued by the cantonal anihovlS's long before the war. And the people of. Ocuovj laughed.