VERMINOUS REICHSTAG.

Taihape Daily Times, 30 July 1919, Page 2

VERMINOUS REICHSTAG.

Hun dignity has received a new shock. Now that the V»/'cinlal' Parliament wants -to migrate to the Reichstag Germany ’s W-estiiiinster, lf‘hiill.l huge and pompous building turns out to be full of lice left by the revolu-H tion troops quartered» during fiche‘ Liebknccht risings. The authorities have in Vain tried to gas those insects out With fumes of sulphur and bespatterings of creosol_ Finally, the place has been evacuated and hermetically sealed for forty days. Sentries with fixed bayonets guard each of its ten portals. 9 The inspecting committee have also {discovered that it will cost about i£25,000 to repair the damage done [by thevandal soldiery to the fittings land furniture of the place. In what }Kvas once the Federal Council Chamber for instance, the twenty great armjchairs, each of which cost £125 have been stripped of their leather, and |fl-om the walls of the big silken cur'tains have vanished ‘without~"a trace.’ The I-lun soldiers. unable to withstand habits acquired in years of war abroad, tried even to unscrew and steal the immense bronze candelabra, which weigh more than a ton each.