STRIKES PAGE BOY WHO OFFERED HELP

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6542, 25 February 1928, Page 9

STRIKES PAGE BOY WHO OFFERED HELP

Cafe Incident Shocks Germany EX-KAISER’S BROTHER; IN-LAW IN DISGRACE [By Electric Cable-Copyright] [Aust. end -N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Friday, 7.80 pm.)' BERLIN, Feb., 23. The ex-Kaiser’s brother-in-law, Alexander Zoubkoff, was arrested at three o’clock this morning at a cafe allegedly for knocking a page boy senseless, Zoubkoff was taken to a police sto tion and released after giving his-name and address. Gormny is stocked by attack on tho page boy in the newlyopened Case Nova bar in tho fashionable West End. Tho newspapers and public are angry and describe him as a barbarian at "the bar, They demand his deportation. He arrived at Caso Nova at midnight, drank heavily, danced with professional dancers and at three o’clock staggered into the lobby where he resented tho offer of help by the page boy whom ho ordered to make himself scarce. The page boy’s explanation was met with a blow which knocked him over, after which it is alleged Zoubkoff proceeded to kick bim. The manager and various people joined in the general tusslo till tho police arrived. Dr. Strosemann’s newspaper says it is “ positively intolerable that one who contrived to force his way ; into the Hohonzollcrn family should continually be the talk of the town. 'The sooner ho was under stricter supervision the 1 bettor.”