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Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1915, Page 9

Sydney papers, states tliitt while Frederick Heppner, a fanner aged oi, and of German descent, was in the bar of an Allmry hotel, lie stated that he was celebrating the fall of Warsaw, and that Germans would rule. Heppner was drunk at the time. His remarks almost occasioned a riot, lie was arrested, and later pleaded guilty to a charge of riotous behaviour. On a charge under the War Precautions Act he did not plead, as his solicitor stated that Heppner did not remember anything about the use of the pro-German language, which was sworn to by several witnesses. Heppner, on the riotous behaviour charge, was fined £2, and bound over to be of good behaviour. On the second charge he was lined £IOO, or six months' imprisonment. Heppner, who is ft well-to-do farmer, paid the fine.