Notes

Berliners experienced a novel sensation when the price of meat and vegetables was reduced. The drop was precipitated by the profiteer police and a further reduction on foodstuffs of 10% to 12% was promised by the authorities. Prices are still high, however; meat 50-c- to 75-c- a pound, margarine 25-c-, eggs 7 1/2-c- to 10-c- each, apples 25-c- a pound.

Someone accused Baroness Katarina von Ohimb, lady member of the Reichstag, of "playing petticoat politics" during the last Cabinet crisis. Retorted the good lady: "You will have to look elsewhere for the guilty parties, and to help your search I will inform you that bowing to the dictates of the present fashion I do not wear petticoats." Die Tageszeitung, reactionary Berlin journal, added ironically: "Every German politician knows that the Baroness wears trousers, not petticoats."

The Berlin Security Police were served with tanks, armored cars, hand grenades and rifles and given orders to shoot and throw to kill if the Communists staged a demonstration. The demonstration took place but was easily broken up by the heavily armed police, with comparatively few casualties.

At Munich, capital of Bavaria, an honest butcher displayed the following sign in his shop window: "Dogs are bought here and their meat and fat are being sold."

According to a despatch received in Paris from The Hague, the Germans recently shipped to the U. S. four and a half tons of gold.

Clad in the attire of a "simple country gentleman," the ex-Crown Prince made his first public appearance at Oels by attending a concert. The inhabitants of the Silesian village treated him as the Crown Prince. When he entered the concert hall the entire audience rose and as His Imperial Highness passed by, women and girls made low courtesies and the males sung a chorus of "hochs" for the Crown Prnice and the Monarchy. When the Prince left, the audience again manifested its attachment to the House of Hohenzollern.