Foreign News: Ha, Rollol

Not only do the fortunate inhabitants of the cow-breeding strawberry-raising island of Guernsey, ancient fief of the Dukes of Normandy, enjoy the finest climate and the lowest taxes in the British Isles, but they have their own special coins and measures (eight doubles: one penny; one vergee: 0.4 acres) and their own archaic and particular means of legal redress. The method of obtain.ng a civil injunction in Guernsey is curious, simple and direct, consists in raising a Clameur de Haro in the presence of witnesses.

Last week one Alfred Arthur Machon, Guernsey householder, stepped...

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