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...Cologne police beat off Fascists who bludgeoned them with iron rods. A Communist was shot dead at Strassfurt, a Fascist at Dortmund, another Communist at Duisburg. Street clashes grew so hot at Kiel that German sailors kept prudently in barracks, cancelled their announced "Parade in Celebration of the 13th Anniversary of the Scuttling of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow." Policemen walked their beats in pairs...
...fades, delirium ensues. The patient is apt to be wild and active, or he may be capable of only low, incoherent mutterings. He cannot sleep; he trembles constantly; he is deeply prostrated. If he is to die, death ensues usually between the ninth and twelfth days. Otherwise on the 13th or 14th day, the high fever suddenly drops to normal, all symptoms rapidly disappear...
...which broke the heart of his far more famed rival and onetime friend, Aristide Briand. On that day victorious President-Elect Paul Doumer said: "It is strange how often the number 13 has arisen to the surface in my long political life. Not only have I just been elected 13th President of France on the 13th day of May, but the last two digits of this year 1931 make 13 when reversed...
Indo-China. I reached Saigon on the 13th day of the month and Hanoi on the 13th of the following month. And certainly no unlucky happening followed either of those two thirteens...
Drastic precautions against disaster while France elected her 14th President in succession to assassinated 13th President Doumer last week included six fire engines parked close to the Palace of Versailles lest it should ignite, 3,250 infantry men and 600 cavalrymen massed in the Palace courtyard, mobilization of all nearby military garrisons and a ceaseless roaring patrol of airplanes overhead...