The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-28
TO REVIVE NAVAL
SPIRIT OF VIKINGS
Kaiserin's Health Unim-
proved by Hamburg Trip
ENGINEER EXPELLED
Officials Afraid He Might See Too
Much-Tinsmith Executed for
Crime-Bad Literature,
to Be Prohibited
ENGINEER EXPELLED
BY MALCOLM CLARKE

Berlin, July 2I-(Special )-kaiser
William cherishes the hope of reviving
the naval spirit of the vikings of old
among the Morse people today He secs
in the future Il great coalition N whicn
the German fatherland will stand il
the center of Q northern maritime
antee of peace.
The Emperor's gift of the magnifi-
icent Fridtjof statue is the theme of
praise from many notable Norsemen. 1t
is received by press and public as II
magnificent present worthy of the
most magnificent among the world s
crowned heads. And international fra
ternity watts in many messages be-
tween the Norwegian capital and the
metropolis.
The trip to Hamburg of the Kaiserin
has so far failed to produce the de-
sired improvement in her health. Her
majesty has scarcely had a good day
since the wedding of her daughter. The
strain of that imposing affair and the
subsequent jubilee feasts was too mucn
for constitution at no time robust.
A British engineer named Charles
Webb, who had been sent by a Reimo
firm to Strasbourg I'm order to sub
nit to the authorities a new aero
plane model, has received notice of ex-
pulsion from Alsace- Lorraine. This
measure is described as having been
adopted in the interests of national
defense. Webb unsueeessfully invoked
British protection.
He went Str1 1shnttrot in fba bona
of doing business with the German
military authorities, obtained material
from his principals and was mounting
an apparatus when the order of ex-
pulsion reached him. Tiss document de-
scribed him as an undesirable alien
but made no specific charge 1t was,
however, indicated to him by a high
Official that it was feared he might
see too much" He went on to Baden
and is carrying on his business from
there.
Webb is stated to have a Prussian of
noble birth as his mother, to have been
born in Darmstadt, and to have studied
in Germany. Other accounts mention
that he came much into touch with Of
ficers during his stay at Strasbourg.
The tinsmith named strasser, who shot
dead the Prussian military attache, at
Munich, Major Won Lewinski in the
streets of Munich last May and mortally
wounded a police inspector, has paid the
penalty of his crime by death at the
hands of the public executioner
Strasser had been unfortunate in his
profession and In his relations with the
police, and after suffering so convictions
became, according to his own confession,
SO embittered with the world that he had
determined in revenge to commit suicide
and to take some one with him into the
next world. He did not mind who his
victim was, provided it was some one of
the better classes. One day he saw the
major. Although he was only a major
said Strasser, he was a Prussiam and
wore uniform, and seemed on all accounts
suitable victim. Strasser had watched
and waited for him several days before
shooting at him. In answer to questions
at his trial, Strasser said that he had not
received the money found on him from
any party, but had stolen 1t. He was
socialist.
An excellent movement is being started
in Germany withethe object of putting an
end to the selling of bad literature. A
bill is now being drafted by the govern
ment. This bill will not only make the
hawking of such books, pamphlets and
papers, and the sale of them in public
places and streets, punishable offense
but also forbds their exposure in shops
and shop windows.
The German battleships of this years
programme are to mount eight 15-inch and
16 6-inch guns The armoured cruisers
from the Derflinger onwards, will, 1t is
added carry eigh. 12-inch guns as their
main battery.
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, 1T is a WELL ESTAR
LtSHED FACT THAT A RANK
GROWTH OF WEEDS is A BREED-
ING PLACE FOR MOSQUITOES AND
OTHER INSECTS DANGEROUS TO