PANDEMONIUM REIGNS.

Taihape Daily Times, 7 April 1919, Page 6

PANDEMONIUM REIGNS.

HORRORS OF DARLINGHURST. GERMAN PRISONERS’ WAY Darlinghurst is a howling pandemonium, says a Sydney paper. People living within a radius of a mile of the old gaol are getting into a low nervous state. All day long, and sometimes far into the night, they are startled by piercing screams, or are depressed and made miserable by dismal bowlings resembling the combined cries of mobs of dingoes. The Chief Justice was visibly affected as he sat on the Bench at the Central, Criminal Court, and tried to hear the evidence of a witness. A good old (mohawk warhoqp /thrilled! / t]h,e court officials, and Sir William Cullen shivered.

“Dear, dear mo!” he ejaculated, “whatever is that’.’ Can’t it be stopped?”

Then he put his band to the topi of his head as if to rrsJo certain that the

scalp was still safe,

Court ushers flCvv east and west; some darted nOrth and south, while others dived at any point of the compass where there was a door. They returned gradually -with consternation, fear, bewilderment, expressed on their countenances, according to how they were affected. But they said never a word, They simply sat dow r n helplessly. “Hurrah! “Wow! now wow!” “Br-r-r!” “Bang!” “Whoop!” came through the open windows and ventilators.

Then the awful visitation drifted into a long-drawn-out cross between the bowlings and meanings of a fortyhundred horse-power storm tearing around thousands of loose sheets • of corrugated iron, and. tons of high explosives dancing a rigadoop on miles and miles of barbed wire entanglements.

It was the method adopted hy the German internees in the gaol compound to make themselves objectionable and latest indications aro that they will succeed, for no attempt is apparently being made to suppress them. They do things better in Gernfanj^