VIENNESE ESCAPADE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 413, 21 April 1937, Page 5

VIENNESE ESCAPADE

COINS THROWN IN STREET Two Englishmen Were Amused. Press Association. —Copyright. (Received 10.5 a.m;.) Vienna, April 20. The civic authorities are in. censed by the escapade of two Englishmen, who disorganised the traffic in a fashionable quar. ter to-day by showering sixpencesi and half-crowns from the balcony of an hotel, from which came laughter and the mutter of Eng. lis'h voices. The street was soon blocked by a thousand quarrelling, fighting Viennese. The jesters were astonished that th c Viennese could be excited about such small coins. The newspaper Weltblatt comments as follows: “No doubt the i same thing would happen if anybody dropped money in the heart of London. “We believe that large crowds of Scotsmen would go directly to London if they heard there was a chance of picking up sixpenqes in the street.”