A SUCCESSFUL RUSE
The Kaiser's recent thunderings against AlsaceLorraine recall to the London Chronicle a story illustrating the state of feeling between the French and Germans in Alsace. An Alsatian fell into the Rhine. He was unable to swim, but he managed to lay hold of a log and screamed out in his native French for help. A German policeman standing on the bank regarded him with a cold eye, but took no further notice. The drowning man, strangling his native pride, repeated his cry in German, but still the policeman stood coldly watching him. Then an inspiration came to the man in the water. ' Vive la France !' he cried. And the policeman immediately plunged into the river and arrested him.
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New Zealand Tablet, 14 August 1913, Page 62
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121A SUCCESSFUL RUSE New Zealand Tablet, 14 August 1913, Page 62
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