GERMAN OBEDIENCE TO ORDERS. Two Gormans were walking cue cold day on the banks of a large ponct, when one of their, fell in. He could not swim, and screamed for aid. Ths other, who was an officer, did not feel inclined to take so cold a plunge, and calmly watched tho struggles of the sinking man. All at once ths man ir. th« water began to slug a verse of the. 1 Marseillaise,’ and the officer jumped in forthwith, for his strict orders were to arrest any person whom he heard sing that famous song. The umbrtunata citizen was imprisoned, hat the! wac better than drowning.
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Evening Star, Issue 14966, 28 August 1912, Page 3
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