Rowdyism unprecedented gibbered in the Prussian Landtag (Parliament), last week, as Prussian Finance Minister Herr Doktor Höpker-Aschoff presented for ratification his proposal (TIME, Oct. 18) to grant the House of Hohenzollern 15,000,000 gold marks ($3,570,000) in final settlement of its claims against the State of Prussia.*
When President Ernest Bartels of the Landtag announced the first reading of the bill, the Communists rose, en masse, shouting: "Traitor! Tool of tyrants! Bootlicker of the Hohenzollerns! . . ." Amid pandemonium the Communists sought to introduce a motion of lack of confidence against Prussian...
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