GERMAN AFFAIRS.
EX-KAISER’S NORWAY TOUR. ALLEGED FALSE ACCOUNTS. By Telegraph - -Press Assn.—Copyright. Berlin, June 112. It is announced that the ex-Kaiser is proceeding against the newspapers Gotha Volksfreund and Dortmund Anseigern for publishing articles giving an allegedly false account of an incident in the Kaiser’s tour of Norway in July, 1897, when lieutenant von Hanke lost his life in a cycling accident on the Stalheim Road. The articles contain a report, widely circulated at the time, that Lieutenant von Hanke received a push from the Kaiser and answered it by giving the Kaiser a black eye. Hanke was arrested and sentenced to death by a courtmartial. but was allowed, as an act of grace, to commit suicide by means of a cycling accident. The official record issued on July 11, ■1897, stated that part of the rigging from the mast of the yacht Hohenzollern fell and struck the Kaiser on the left eye while he was standing on the deck. A stone marks the spot where the officer fell from the cliff. COMMUNISTS ATTACK NATIONALISTS. Berlin, June 12. I A Communist counter-demonstration a Nationalist demonstration in Koenigsberg, East russia, in favor tof Hindenburg. The Communists fired, filling one soldier and wounding four.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 June 1922, Page 5
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202GERMAN AFFAIRS. Taranaki Daily News, 14 June 1922, Page 5
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