SUICIDE OF A GERMAN

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 247, 8 July 1915, Page 7

SUICIDE OF A GERMAN

J A distressing sequel to the raids on I foreigners was revealed at an inquest at Rotherhithe on Frederick William Zahn, fifty-four, a grocer, of Galleywall Road, Bermondsey. His wife said he was a naturalised English man, and has been twenty-nine years in England. Since last week he had been worried through threats to loot his shops. On Thursday two men demanded that the door should be opened and she told them that she and her two children were Eng- ' lish and that she had seven nephew? j lighting in the British Army. The> • said they wanted the price of a drinfc j and she gave them a shilling whereupon they went away. On Friday stontb were thrown and the windows broken | and on Sunday mornng 3ome men attempted to get the shutters down but were prevented by the police. Later In the morning her husband was i'otin<3 hanging in the cellar. He had told her that he was ashamed of his county;.. He left a letter in which he snht.— "My denr wife and children, —The 1 n-frony you have suffered these two days { is• .breaking my heart." The letter vAc. Jed: "Why don't you Englishmen or j military age fight the Germans in the j trenches instead of old men and wome.. | here, and rob them of their few sticks? j Why don't those of no use to Lore i Kitchener sit up night and day fine make mnniitons for your brothers who me fighting for a shilling a dny, instead of coming out in strike? \ou will miss your freedom if you should lose A. but T hope not. There is only one Eng- | land, the country of my adoption and choice.' . ' I A verdict of "Suicide during tempor-j-i.••;,- insanity" was returned.

i At the conference of Mayors ami ! chairmen nt Wellington regarding •' | provincial fund for wounded soldier.' \ ami sailors, it was resolved tlint dele- \ gates report to their respective socioI tips, and forward their replies, favourI able or otherwise, to a special confer- ' ence to be set up in Wellington, when i a public meeting will be held; also to 1 request that the conference to be held J in Christehureh on 28th inst. re a naI tional fund be held in abeyance in the meantime. I There s a story going round the West End of London that in one of the Home commands a very secret order was issued that between certain hours on a | certain day no officer in the command | was to ride in any vehicle whatever—i whether train, tram, or taxi —he was to : trust solely to his own legs for locomoi tion. Then (says a contemprary) the I -authorities during the prohibited ' hours proceeded o arrest every officer who was found riding. They arrested : 183 —all German spies. j I On the eve of Italy's dceison to inI tervene in the war Gabrielle d'Annuai zio, the Italian national poet, delivered I a stirring speech to the Roman popuj lace from the balcony of his hotel. j Router summarises it as fololws:—He ! recalled the famous proclamation of | Marsala, "He who does not take arms ! is cither a coward or n traitor," anC j continued: "Cowards or traitors arc I those who, secretly or openly, labour to I disarm Italy or to make our Fatherland lose its sense of shame. For the last three days some odour of treachery is suffocating us; but that breath T 3 passing through our skies which "Inspired the prodigious verses in which Dante depicts the flight of the Roman eagle. Let Rome find again in the Forum the boldness of Caesar, 'Alea jacta est'—the die is cast. Let Italy take arms for a severe combat. She has been listening for too long to the groans of those who are suffering so much anguish. It is Roman to conquer and to live in the eternal life of tlio Fatherland. Sweep away all the filtn, drive into the sewers everything putrrlied! Long live Rome without shame! Long live a great and pure Italy!" i | "NAZOL" doesn't waste time nor j drain your pocket. It eases any eough or cold quickly and safely. For eighteenpeuee yon ea-a buy 60 dostjs—and every dose is good. , j Sixty doses of "KAZOL," e»*«gh : to .remove hall-a-dozen bad colds, firsts ■■ G-nlyv .^rtg-liteonpeijfie.>..• *''NAZ£)L". is easy So take, ffctfl.uJeitty, imi fcße *» SH ,