BERLIN AMUSED.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 12001, 19 October 1906, Page 5

BERLIN AMUSED.

♦ Pren Association.— Telegraph.— Copyright. Received October 19. 8.49 a.m. BERLIN, October 18. All Berlin is laughing at the Kopenick coup. The Tageblatt, under the heading "The Uniform Fetish," days the swindler succeeded because Prussian soldiers have been systematically broken of thinking. LONDON, October 18. Reuter's Berlin correspondent states that the pseudo-captain changed his uniform for civilian clothes at Rixdolf , where his sword was found. After arresting the Mayor in the Kaiser's name, he tried to extort from the terrified officials the Municipal Savings Bank funds, saying that he wanted two million marks. Fortunately the cashier had departed. The police, impressed by the captain's bearing, kept the crowds back, while the troops conducted the Mayor to a carriage, a police sergeant and a gendarme conveying him to Berlin. The Mayor's wife waii allowed to accompany him. BERLIN, October 18. The Kopenich hoaxer has been identified as a clever swindler who has already undergone a year's imprisonment.