Foreign News Notes, Jan. 28, 1924

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Said Fraulein Doris Bittner in the Berliner Mittagszeitung : "The marrying game in Germany has become a parody on love, but it is a tragic parody after all. It is a pity to see the young man flee from his natural comrade in life [the young unmarried woman without a flat] and rush into the arms of the widow with the furnished flat."

The Nationalist Party in the Reichstag took objection to the offering of German sympathy by the German Charge d'Affaires in Paris to the French Government on the loss of the airship Dixmude.

Said an interpellation: "Did he extend sympathy on his own responsibility? If not, who ordered him to do so and has the German Government taken the precaution that such incidents derogatory to our national dignity be avoided in future?"

At Ibyekoe, near Hamburg, a bomb was thrown into a torchlight procession being held to commemorate the foundation of the German Reich. Fourteen people were injured.

General Erich von Ludendorff, hero of the "beer house brawl" (TIME, Nov. 19), familiarly called "Ludy," complained that lie did not receive his mail. Investigations brought out the fact that Frau Siegfried Wagner, wife of the composer and conductor (see Page 18), had sent the general a $100 bill to aid the Royalist cause, and that the money had been confiscated by the police."