BRIGAND'S ORDEAL

Evening Star, Issue 17394, 2 July 1920, Page 6

BRIGAND'S ORDEAL

TOO MANY LOVE LETTERS. Max Holz, the Communist brigand of South Saxony, is (says the 'Daily Mail') beset by an insidious danger which scares him more than the advance of the Government troops sent to take him dead or alive. He is being overwhelmed with love letters from every part of Germany from all sorts of Gretchens, young and old, plain and pretty, married and unmarried. Some of them are writing several times daily to offer him their hearts. Holz has felt obliged to publish a warning in thu local official organ of the Communist movement, the ' Falkenstein Advertiser,' that he will punish with heavy fines all the women in the district under his power who write and ask him to marry them, and he will publish the full names and addresses of those who live in other parts of Germany. "I am married already," announces the Red dictator, decisively. Some of the more energetic admirers have attempted to storm the rebel's heart by going to sec him. Holz's outposts search trains entering the districts where he holds sway, and they have orders to question closely any lonely woman with a ticket to a place near wh'ere the Communist chief is stopping, whether her appearance is romantic or not. Several elderly German spinsters have been turned out of trains for being in possession of parcels of hand-knitted socks or home-made sausages which they admitted were gifts they hoped to offer in person to their hero. Wealthier women have tried to reach Holz's headquarters by motor car, regardless of the. danger of being arrested bv Government troops as suspected Communist agents. Holz , has had no pity, either, on these pilgrims. He has had the motor carscconfiscated for the Red Guard, and the unsuccessful women have been sent back to the nearest railway station afoot.