The Schwartzistan Herald, 11 February 1981

Rolf Jost of the Marsh Regiments is awarded the Order of the Reed for repairing the planking under fire

The Reed Line, 5 February 1981

The Reed Line. Rolf Jost of the Marsh Regiments is awarded the Order of the Reed for repairing the planking under fire. The regiment paraded for the reading. The matter is expected to be raised in the Assembly.

The regiments remain at their posts. The Ministry states that supplies are moving up the causeway by night as usual and that the garrison at Marschau is at full strength.

Concerning: Rolf Jost.

A new school opens at Sudfurt with 50 pupils

Sudfurt, 10 February 1981

Sudfurt. A new school opens at Sudfurt with 50 pupils. The textbooks are the Ministry's. some 70 persons gathered in the street and dispersed shortly before the evening bell, the causeway being under a hand's depth of water. Local reaction was muted.

Concerning: Sudfurt, Iron Gate.

A crowd of 3,000 watches the Pfahl match at Hagenkirchen

Hagenkirchen, 10 February 1981

A crowd of 3,000 watches the Pfahl match at Hagenkirchen. There are 32 arrests. The bell was rung at the church and the townspeople turned out to see. One witness, a woman selling eels at the corner, gave the following account: 'It will be talked of at the market for a week.'

Concerning: Hagenkirchen, Reed Row.

A new school opens at Salzhafen with 80 pupils

Salzhafen, 6 February 1981

A new school opens at Salzhafen with 80 pupils. The textbooks are the Ministry's. Word reached the market square within the hour and was the talk of it for the rest of the day. Speaking to this journal, a peat cutter on his way home said: 'I said at the time it would come to this.'

Concerning: Salzhafen, Printer Street.

Casualty Roll as published by the War Ministry

Corporal

Nikolaj Hallin, of Tarnmund

The 4th Marsh Regiment

enemy fire

8 February 1981

Published as issued by the War Ministry Records Office.

The front line is at the Reed Line. No change.

The Assembly

9 February 1981. The Grauburg Digital Records Act passed. Passed by the Assembly by 33 votes to 4. Licences are issued by the Ministry of the Interior for a fee of 63 marka. Members rose late in the forenoon.

6 February 1981. An Act for the Better Provision of Telegraph passed. Passed by the Assembly by 48 votes to 14. Licences are issued by the Ministry of the Interior for a fee of 3155 marka. The debate was lively.

5 February 1981. An Act for the Better Ordering of Railway passed. Passed by the Assembly by 39 votes to 20. Provides 19561 marka for works between Sudfurt and Vellmar. Comes into force on 1 January 1982. Members rose at a quarter past 2.

The Grand Chancellor, Andrea Wendl, has held office since 14 February 1979.

The Courts

The Regional Court of Westgau, 11 February 1981. The Crown v. Kellner. Concerning assault at Sanding. Ruling: acquitted. The public gallery was thin.

The Regional Court of The Osmoor, 10 February 1981. The Crown v. Ostrand. Concerning smuggling salt across the Sudmark. Ruling: fined 7855 marka. The parties left by separate doors.

The Regional Court of The Ostrand, 9 February 1981. Hallin v. Haubuk. Concerning the reckoning of a lease spanning the removed year. Ruling: for the tenant. The public gallery was full.

The Regional Court of The Osmoor, 7 February 1981. Nussbaum v. Hallin. Concerning the reckoning of a lease spanning the removed year. Ruling: for the tenant. Judgment was delivered at the rising of the court.

The Regional Court of Westgau, 6 February 1981. Brenn v. Kessler. Concerning a contract for church bells not delivered. Ruling: damages of 1309 marka. The parties left by separate doors.

The Market

The Exchange closed the week thin. Prices:

Bread, the loaf, 261.8 pfen; beer, the litre, 392.8 pfen. A labourer's day is paid at 41.11 marka; a furnished room lets at 143.88 marka the month. The Exchange index closed the year at 32,419.70. Bank rate stands at 5.47 per cent.

The War Appropriation for the year, 90,554,982 marka, passed the Assembly without a dissenting voice.

Registers

National Archive, weekly return: Recorded this week throughout the country: 224 births, 102 marriages, 170 deaths. Population at the last return, 682,528.

Programmes of the day: the wireless.

On This Day

The Herald on this day.

119 years ago. Police searching the Norrwick premises of Hallin & Sons find, behind a press, a bound almanac for a year the Ministry of Chronology declines to name. Report.

171 years ago. The bells of Sudfurt church are recast. They are rung for the first time on Sunday. Report.

Pfahl

Pfahl League final table:

The League of 1980 was won by Marschau Garrison. Full table.

Marschau Garrison	18	4
Tarnmund Lake	17	5
Grauburg Fortress	15	7
Hollstadt Workers	15	7
Altstadt Pfahl Club	14	8
Weinfeld Vintners	13	9
Norrwick Printers	12	10
Reedside Athletic	8	14
Vellmar Wardens	7	15
Brennholt Farmers	7	15
Kessel Iron	4	18
Ostrabruck Bridge	2	20

Correspondence

Sir, — Your report on The Reed Line was fair, if brief. Those of us who live there would add only that the matter had been raised with the district office more than once. Yours, A Reader.

Notices

Situations: Mengen Department Store, Lindenmar, part-time staff.

For sale: electrical work for houses and works. Sudholt Electric Company, Sudholt.

Found: keys, Sudfurt.