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["Neue Rheinische Zeitung" No. 155, 29 November 1848]

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Cologne, 28 Nov. The *N[eue] Rh[einische] Z[ei]t[un]g* said in its issue of 17 November:

“And then the *Jews*, who since the emancipation of their sect, at least in their distinguished representatives, have everywhere stepped to the *head* of the *counter-revolution*, what awaits them? They have not awaited victory in order to fling them back into their ghetto.” <See “Bekenntnisse einer schönen Seele”, p. 25>

At that time we quoted *Bromberg* government decrees. We have an even more striking fact to report today. The Grand Masonic Lodge of the Three Crowns in Berlin — as is well known, the *Prince of Prussia* is the supreme head of Prussian Freemasonry, just as *Frederick William IV* is the supreme head of the Prussian religion — has declared the *Minerva* Lodge in Cologne inactive. Why? *Because it has affiliated Jews.*
*For the information of the Jews!*

A circular of the Brandenburg Ministry which has accidentally come to our notice, addressed to all government boards, calls upon them to carry out *mass arrests of the leaders of the clubs*.

We are assured from a good source that *Cologne*, *Düsseldorf*, *Aachen, etc.*, will receive imperial troops, specifically *Austrians*, as a Christmas present from our most gracious sovereign. Probably *Croats*, *Seressaner*, *Czechs*, *Rascians*, *Serbs, etc.*, so that “order and quiet” may also be established in the Rhine Province as in Vienna. The Rhine Province, by the way, it is said, does not border on *Russia*, but *on France*.
*For the information of the most gracious sovereign!*