The following appeared in the Times of Dec. 2nd, 1907, dated Vienna, Dec. 1st and 2nd respectively:
"A mass meeting took place to-day at Lemberg, the capital of Galicia, to protest against the Polish policy of Prussia and Prince Bülow's Expropriation Bill. Some 10,000 persons were present. In a much applauded address, the vice-burgomaster condemned Prince Bülow's action and called upon the Polish representatives in the forthcoming Austro-Hungarian Delegations to vote against the Foreign Office estimates. After the meeting, the police prevented an attempt to make a demonstration against the German Imperial Consulate. The demonstrators carried large caricatures of the Emperor William, Prince Bülow, and Baron von Aehrenthal."
"To-day's reports show yesterday's anti-Prussian demonstration at Lemberg to have been accompanied by some excesses. After the meeting a number of demonstrators succeeded in breaking through the cordon of police and in reaching the hotel where the German Consul has hitherto lived. Several windows were smashed, and, in order to avoid an attack upon the hotel, the hotel-keeper declared that he had already given the Consul notice to quit and that the Consul had departed. The proposal of a student that no inhabitant of Lemberg should give the German Consul shelter on pain of being considered a traitor to the Polish cause was enthusiastically acclaimed. A caricature of the Emperor William was attached to the end of a rod and burned."
88. A Charmed Life.
The following appeared in a London evening paper:
"In the list dealt with by Mr Plowden yesterday at Marylebone was a charge against an Italian footman named Pito Conziani, aged twenty-four, giving an address in Grosvenor-square, who was accused of being found drunk and disorderly and using bad language the previous night in Old Quebec-street.
"When the case was reached the accused came forward from a seat at the back of the Court and was placed in front of the dock.
"A consultation immediately took place between the clerk and the magistrate, and as a result Mr Plowden inquired who the accused was.
"Inspector Grace replied that he was, as he represented, in the service of the Italian Ambassador, and he claimed privilege.
"Mr Plowden told the accused he bore a charmed life in this country in certain respects, and ordered him to be discharged."