CONFISCATED FINERY.: GERMAN GIRLS HOAXED.
LONDON, May 1. From the Kieler Zeitung the following is quoted by the Daily Express : — All the girls of Ihringshausen were up bright and early last Sunday, dressing themselves m their best and producing from sundry cunning hiding places fine raiment of of all descriptions. The herr burgomaster had promised them a dance m the Town Hall m the afternoon. The. girls, all smiles and dainty lace and silk, trooped to the hall, where for two hours they vainly awaited partners and musicians. At length the burgomaster arrived, and having closed the doors behind him, mustered the festively garbed girls, each of whom was ordered to sign ncr name on a sheet of official paper. The burgomaster then announced that the dance would not take place. ■Sadly disappointed, the fair ones departed, and the following day the burgomaster sent a number of policemen on a visit to the houses of all the wouldbe dancers, and despite their tearful protJestiations that they had 1 "really nothing* • wear." 4he whole of their finery was seized and confiscated. The invitation to the dance had been merely an official ruse to secure the forbidden garments.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14647, 3 July 1918, Page 10
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