The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-05
SCANDALS ARE THE
 ORDER OF THE DAY Thirty Blue BIoods Arrested In CHARGED WITH BURGLARY New Book "Banzai," the Abortive Product of Some Anonymous Night
 mare Dreamer, Creates Stir
 Among German Readers.
Bv MALCOLM CLARKE.

Berlin, July 4-Scandals are the order of the day and Berlin has a sensation
 which is not likely to be soon forgotten and which has caused even the staid Ger
 man papers to use big headlines because
 a number of the city's most prominent
 families are implicated through their
 younger members.
 The other day no less than thirty very
 young men, some of them hardly more
 than boys, were suddenly and simultane-
 ously arrested and charges of burglary
 brought against them, and, in spite of the
 powerful influence of their families, they
 are to be tried in open court like ordl-
 nary criminals.
 For some time the police have been
 mystified by a series of burglaries eVi-
 dently committed by criminals whose
 pedigrees were not on the police records.
 All known crooks were watched, put without result for the burglaries cont'n- ued and not one of the old-timers was on the job. Stores in the wholesale and fashionable shopping district were robbed night after night, and not clue was found until several cases af panama mats of the most expensive kind were stolen
 The next day a young man or goou family tried to sell some of the hats, ana
 bv letting him go ahead unmolested the police located the whole gang Of thirty young men, well known about town as | free spenders of money in music halls ana vaudeville theatres. All were arrested at the same time and taken to the police station, where some Of the younger broke down and confessed. l Rail has not been allowed and they Will 1 have to appear in the criminal court next I week.
 hook said to have been written by ! an officer of the general staff ana oeai- ing with the war between Japan ana the United States. which every one here con siders inevitable, has just appeared ana is being widely discussed. The book, entitled "Banzai,' after the war cry of the little brown men, gives the following as the most probable events of the war:
 Without the formality of declaring war .he Japanese attack the Philippines and cut all the cables. The whole Japanese navy then steams toward San Francisco, which is taken entirely by surprise, bom- tarded and captured, partly through the aid of Japanese cooks and workmen em- ployed in the forts defending the Golden Gate.
 Immediately afterward the Japs take possession of all railroad lines in the states of California, Oregon and Wash ington.
 The American battleship fleet in Mag dalena bay is surprised and destroyed by the Japanese.
 American soldiers. regulars and volun- teers are rushed west, but are entirely wiped out in the first battle by the Jap anese veterans.
 Then the fortune of war changes. The | United States shows remarkable recupera- | tive powers and volunteers from all parts 1 of Europe come to fight under the Stars | and Stripes.
 | The new American navy gives battle to l the Japs and drives them into the sea | with enormous losses. | Tn the meantime civil war breaks out in | the United States In New York the
 slavs and Latin people fight. the working l people revolt and the millonaires' pal
 aces are footed; but after a while order is 1 restored.
 l The author of this remarkable book
 hides his identity under the pseudonym
 "Parabellum.'
 From the little town Of Sar Egres, ir
 Hungary. comes the news of terrible | tragedy.
 l A man named Ludwig Biro had emi- grated to America some years ago, leav- | ing his wife behind until he should have | made the fortune he looked for.
 As thousands of others, he did not make | the fortune, and during the business de-
 pression he lost his position. With sev- l eral similarly situated friends, Biro re- 1 turned to Hungary without notifying his l wife of his coming.
 Unexpectedly he, entered his house | where he hoped to find his wife faithfully waiting for news from him. Instead he | found a number of children. whose mother l was his wife, but whose father was an | other man.
 Furious with anger, he whipped re- | volyer from his pocket. and before any