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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21st, 1929.
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PAGAN!
PRUSSIAN GENERAL'S WAR ON CHRISTIANITY,
UNDERWORLD SWEEP BY
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PRESENTATIONS AT COURT
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of the Fatherland, calling on the German people to renounce Chris tianity and return to the worship of its ancient pagan gods.
The reason for exolusion of thow
who have been presented during the last three years, it is understood. is the desire of the Court officials to keep the number of present 1- tions as low as possible.
The Lord Chamberlain's depart-1 pant has been simply deluged with applications in recent years, and the utmost difficulty has been found in reducing the mumbers to reason able limits
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on the Monday, in the widest sweep appears in a notice issued from the Berlin, January 23rd.--Field-
through the underworld that Chi. Lord Chamberlain's office. It states Marshal Ludendorff, the leader of|cago has ever known.
that:- Police action was due to the lack. the previous week there were 109 "No lady who has attended a hold-ups and robberies and four Court within the last three years. wurders, while a number of persons enn have her name "submitted. were seriously wounded, despite the except under vary exceptional car fact that Big Bill Thompson cumstances." Lad proclaimed that Chicago was now, as sale as any American city
Seven hundred and fifty plain clothes policemen conducted the aids, which were divided among hundred squada. Their orders from Deputy Commissioner Stege (in General Ludendorff and his wife charge of the detective bureau) "Don't let studded shirt will begin their campaign by ad-front interfere with your duty. We dressing a meeting of the Tannen want the big shots as well as the Lerg League at Plauen in Saxony petty racketeers and gamblers." - on Saturday, January 28th. They
Every Suspeck, will gradually work northward This instruction meant that the from Plauen by way of Aus, police should arrest every suspect, The strain on the King and TJIKINI Rautren, Liogniti, and Goerlits to whether in evening clothes or rough Queen of standing for two and a Berlin," where they will preach at attire. Detectives searched Chi- half hours is great Queen Victoria the Kriegerverein (ex-soldiers' } cago's back-alleys, and also the in her later years was necustomed club) on February 8th
theatre district, hotel foyers, and to sit during a Court, and, it is General Ludendorf, since his re-other conspicuous places, and possible that this precedent may be tirement from military life to his wherever anybody known to have revived to lessen the strain on castle at. Ludwigshoebe, near a police record was encountered, he their Majesties. Munich, after the wag, has, as was was taken to the nearest police The question of the number of hitherto known only to a few of | station.
Courts to be held this year has not the initiated, recently become the
yet been decided. It may be three apostle of a new religion, of which
or four, according to the number his wife is the high priestess.
of applications for presentation. The "high priestess a few weeks ago published a book, en titled Deutscher Gott Glaube" (Gorman God Oreed), in which she condemns Christianity as "a foreign cult unsuited to the Ger- man character."
„Thousands of Years- Through many thousands of years," Frau Ludendorff declares, a strong and forceful people with high moral standards, sound in body and soul," About 1,100 years ago a system of wholesale murder to extirpate our forefathers of Ger manic faith was instituted. Thou- Bands and thousands were killed because they preferred death to abjuring the faith of their fathers About 1,000 years ago their resis tance was finally broken, and our true national religion was hence forth represented at the work of the devil.
our forefathers were
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Now, 1,000 years after this tar- rible catastrophe, we find our people living in the deepest moral abandonment, in godlessness, in dull religious' indifference, or rigid ritualism.....
Pickpockets and confidence trick sters, as well as murderers, were
wept into the net.
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The police confiscated "a smail" Owing to the King's illness the TJIMANOEK armoury's of weapons, carried by lists have been opened nearly those arrested, including seventy-five-month later than last year. | smal) shotguns, and revolvers. Many The only reference to second underworld" resorts attempted to attendances in last year's regula bolt their doors against the police, tions was the following:- but all doors were smashed by Any lady who has attended squads carrying axes.
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So-called respectable" boot. should state, when applying, the legging places, were not molested,year she last attended, and whether because the deputy commissioner she was presented on that occasion in his supplementary instructions or attended to make a presenta stated, "Don't bother about seiz. tion.
It is understood that the Prince ing booze; leave working.men alone. It's every crook in Chicage of Wales will act for the King at
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Judges were kept busy through. out the night "anawering frenzied telephone calls For: aid from those arrested, but the police were told POISON LETTER PERSECU to disregard injunctions." Hun-
TION. dreds were freed Ister when the police found that respectable citi zens had been caught by over CLUE OF FOOTPRINTS IN THE zealous detectives.
· MAN SENTENCED TO FIFTEEN YEARS.
GIRL PUSHED UNDER A
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"At last, however, in this hour. of dour national need, the recog nition of the sanctity of our race William. Edward Holder, aged and the sanctity of our racial gods twenty-seven, a farmer's son, bave once more awakened. Noth- Llanfechain, was sentenced a't ing can prevent us Germans from Montgomeryshire Assizes to fifteen returning during the coming years' penal servitude for attempt- tury to the worship of the gods of ing to murder Min Kate Eliza our fathers.
beth Bussey, aged eighteen, the Fran Ludendorf's bible is the daughter of a gamekeeper, by push Edda, the great Scandinavian coling her in front of a moving train lection of Norse folklore written at Llanfechain Station on October down in Runic characters during 29th.
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covered the prophecy of Germany's present plight, but also the gospel of Germany's future salvation. The greatest enemies of the Ger man people, according to the Ludendorffs, are the Jews, the Jesuits, and the Freemasons, Gea eral Ladendorf has vowed to do vote his great military brain, to waging a ruthless war on these
insidious foes"
The general and his wife have no intention for the present of in citing their flock to practise the ancient rituals of their savage forbears, They hope, however, that when the ground for the great Germanie reformation has been sufficiently prepared it will fall to
being tried by me in this court for wilful murder," said Mr. Justice Charles, addressing Holders
SNOW.
Six residents of Wollaston, near Wellingborough, have received in a number of remarkable ways dur- ing the past few weeks a series of sixty or seventy anonymous letters couched in threatening and obscene. Janguage..
The letters have been
Sent through the post, Delivered by hand through pri- vate letterboxes,
Hidden in flower beds, Left in watering capa Left in front gardens, and Tied to pebbles and thrown into the grounds of the recipients.
Frequent Lettera.
The anonymous writer, in spite of close watches and cleverly designed traps by police and private citizens, has escaped detection. Observation Holder, in the witness-box, said has been kept on certain places that the reason he turned down the until the early hours of the morn- light of one of the station all lamps ings, and frequently letters have about 8 p.m., on October 29th was been discovered after the watch has to prevent it from smoking. Misa been relinquished.
Bussey, who walked to the station with him, later complained of a walking at night in lonely, dark "Recipients of these letters, when bad headache and feeling rather spots of Wollaston, have been faint. She leaned against some mysteriously assailed by showers of milk churns on the platform.
stones. One man was injured below As the train was approaching," the eye by a stone so thrown. said Holder," I said, Come on, Kabe, Pull yourself together.' in the morning pinned to an ont A scurrilous note was found early put my left arm round her house of a residence. Footprints in shoulder, and we started to walk the snow had been left by the
their apostolic successor to lead the along the platform, our, backs to mysterious postman... German people out of the "hereti the train. Kate was nearest the
One of the letters, scrawled on the cal un-Germanic churches
line, and I was on the kerbing of back
the platform":
inside of an empty cigarette box, into the pagan customs of their férefathers.
"We had gone.about two yards was thrown, apparently, from the when Kate stopped and turned. top of an omnibus. The train came in, and Kate seemed All the letters are in the hand- to fall head-first forward. I grip-writing of an uneducated person, ped at her with my left hand, but it and many were in block capitals, was too late. She had gone too obviously with the intent to disguise far."
the handwriting.
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