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...Where is my sword...
...What about my sword! Have those ? ? French found it yet? I want my sword...
Presently from Madeira the station master at Bordeaux received an urgent request. He must find Marshal Pilsudski's state sword. It was thought to be in the car. The station master was formally authorized in the name of Marshal Pilsudski to break the seals, rummage the car, pack up the sword if found, and despatch it by the next boat to Madeira...
...station master did no such thing. In his canny French mind's eye he saw that if he opened the car, and even if he found the sword, afterwards a whole troop of excitable Poles might hold him responsible for whatever else might happen to be missing. With elaborate politeness he cabled to Madeira his refusal...
Ensued a month of hectic cabling. Finally last week the sealed car was towed to Warsaw, opened. The sword was found, exactly where Marshal Pilsudski's valet had said it would be. The sword was shipped to Madeira. It arrived safely. Correspondents were permitted to learn why it was so urgently needed...