There was much astonishment and annoyance in offici quarters in Berlin because of rumours circulated abroad of street disorders there When Reuters e indent made a tour of the working-class quarters in Berlin he found that all was quiet and normal.
The report that the Belgian-German frontier had been closed was promptly denied from Brussels, Typical of the wild rumours which were circulated to-day, was a report from Warsaw that many German Army officers, belonging to old Prussian aristocratic families, had been arrested in the towns of Stolpe, Pomerania, and Allenstein, East Prussia.
The officers were arrested, the re. port declared, as a result of their discontent with the recent changes in the German Army Command. The report could not be confirmed from any good source and was believed to be exaggerated.—Reuter, Twenty-one Houses Razed by Flames Two large fires occurred in the Eastern district of the International Settlement yesterday morni In Lane 459, Sewtard Road, thirteen houses were destroyed and a fourteenth was badly damaged. Hongkew Station firemen extinguished the flames.
The other fire razed eight one-storey Chinese country houses east of 6 Linching Road, Yangtszepoo. Firemen from Yangiszepoo Station attended this blaze and extinguished the flames.
No-one was injured in either fire.
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