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Taranaki Daily News, 3 November 1915, Page 5

Despite Prussian tyranny, the inhabitants of Brussels are indefatigable in playing "zwanzes," orj.praetical jokes, on the OJerman authorities, says an English paper. The latest greatly displeased the Bodies. The latter has installed machine guns on the summit of the Palais de Justice, which commanded the iea and MaroUes districts, where. Higher elements of the population reside. The inhabitants promptly retaliated by placing old metal stove pipes on every available roof, so that at a little distance the neighbourhood seemed to be bristling with artillery. The joke did not appeal to the humour of the Governor-licneral, who fined each exhibitor of a stove pipe 35 marks. The fine was levied, to quote the unconscious irony of the official announcement, because the jokers had "distinguished themselves so grievously by a method of raillery which could only be disastrous to the excellent relations subsisting between the civil population and '•he authorities"