GERMANY'S UNIFORM FETISH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81869, 19 October 1906, Page 3

GERMANY'S UNIFORM FETISH.

THE DARING KOPENICK * BOBBERY. BERLIN ENJOYING THE JOKE. SOLDIERS' AUTOMATIC OBEDI-1 ENCE TO GOLD LACE. j Receive d[Sth, g.56 p.m. . Berlin, Octobei iS. All B«fUn is laughing over the V q. penich coup. ..J 1 ?? Tageblatt, under the hea/,j nir . Uniform Fetish.' 1 sa'y* the sw'.ndler was successful because the Prussian •oldiers are sy«temaucally bro) en f ,-- thinking. PARTICULARS OF TLIF. COUP. POLICE A>o) TROOPS ASSIST.

SAVING'S BANK FUNDS PROVI- , DENTLALLY SJ.VED. i J —.

Received 19th, 9.56 p.m. London, October 18

Reuter's Berlin correspondent Hates the pseudo captain changed his uniform for civilian clothes at Rixdolf, where hj" sword was found.

After arresting the Mayor, ir, the Kaiser's name, he iried to ext<- rt f r om the terrified officials the mun i c i pa i lavings bank funds, sar hc want . Ed two miUon mark? ' v - ot tuna<elv the cashier had dev arlec i The police, im' )resßec j by t [, e cap . k* ann &" Kept the crowds back, while the conducted the Mayor to a ca' r iage, a police sergeant Berlin r ' cnac '' er conducting him to

Mayor's wife was allowed to jmpany him.

(A man wearing a captain's uniform, and bearing a forged military order, met a corpoTal and eleven guardsmen marching to Berlin with documents. He induced them to follow him to tho Town Hall at Kopenick, eight miles away, where he arrested the Mayor and took four thou*and marks from the safe. ff he man then ordered the Mayor to be escorted to prison at Berlin, and told a portion of the guardsmen to remain and guard •he Town Hall. The fogue thfln disappeared.)