Protected Her.
A curious circumstance is told of tho German Emperor's entry into Jerusalem. The Turkish police cleared the roadway by most impartially whacking and banging everyone who attempted to trespass upon it. But there was one exception, in the shape of an old woman, who was allowed to wander at will along the open space reserved for the Imperial party. She was wearing a petticoat made of a tattered Union Jack.
Doubtless the Turkish police thought that she was a British tourist, whose eccentricities, as everybody Knows, are everywhere respected, i
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Otago Witness, Issue 2363, 8 June 1899, Page 61
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92Protected Her. Otago Witness, Issue 2363, 8 June 1899, Page 61
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