Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-30
PRUSSIANS MAY
Be FORCED TO
DRINK WATER
(By Dispatch a. P. yirel

BERLIN, May 29.-Members of the
Prussian Land rag may be com
PEELED to drink beer instead of water.
Since recent disorders in the cham
Der, during which a member of the
left doused his opponents with water
until they raised umbrellas and adj
vanced to meet him in hand-to- hand
combat, the rules committee has
threatened to remove the water bot
ties from the desks of members. If
this were done there then would re-
main nothing but beer from the diet
restaurant with which the members
could quench their thirst. And it would
not ,be handy enough for use to douse
members.
Speaker Bartel, however, is op-
posed to removing the water carafes.
He considers water a necessary lux
uriant for the throats of long -winded
speakers. Also he fears that if mem
bers were to drink beer in the same
quantity as water is consumed, out
breaks of disorder would be more
prevalent than now.
In the controversy surrounding the
property of one time rulers in Ger.
many, former Duke Ernst August Won
Braunschweig, son-inlaw of William
Hohenzollern, apparently sees the
hand writing on the wall. He has
ordered contractors to halt extensive
repairs to his castle i'll Blankenburg.
He is fearful that after having
sunk money in furnishing the estate,
the property will be taken from him
by the passage of a law confiscating
with decentralization former rulers
properties. The referendum on the
question of the seizure of royal prop
erty will be. held June 20.
Ernest August married Princess
Victoria Louise, only daughter of for
mer Emperor William, in 1913. They
have five children.
To marry the head of the govern
ment's press section does not mean
getting close to the news, says Frau
Kiep, wife of DR.. Otto c. Kiep, chief
of the official press bureau.
Frau Kiep has confided to Amer
lean friends her disappointments in
this line began soon after her we'd
ding, when her husband went to
Geneva with the German delegation.
"On his return l piled him with ques-
tions," she said, for of course 1 as
sumed he could tell me what hap
pened But my tired husband threw
up his hands in despair:
What! you too! Isn't it enough
to have newspaper men pester me
night and day.?
He is right, but it seems the
irony of fate to be married to the
press department, as it We're, and yet
not have access to the news"
German wine and liquor dealers are
still optimists when it comes to be-
lieving that the Volstead act in the
United States will be repealed Vir-
tually every dealer is ready to re-
sumo intensive business relations with
American purchasers of wet goods.
In the export department of Kemp
inski's wine house, the cellars of
which cover 10000 square feet, there
is vacant section labeled this
space reserved for the U. S. A."
The manager of the department ex-
plains that foreign orders prior to
packing are assembled in different
sections of the cellars for customs
inspection and levying of the export
tax.
Two thousand years ago fires flared
from the SUBMITS of all the mills
throughout what later became the
province of Burgundy to convoke the
assembly at Vitracte at which it
was decided IN form the sacred 11nioo
of all Gauls under VercingetoriX TO
face the invasion of julius Caesar
Tomorrow night all Burgundiahs
will be out watching for fires on the
MISCELLANEOUS