Nancy Officials Blamed.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 18, 1913:
May Be Punished for Not Stopping the Anti-German Demonstration.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    PARIS, April 17.— The official report in regard to the Nancy incident of last Sunday has not yet reached the Ministry of the Interior, but it is clear that the authorities intend to take every possible precaution, especially on the frontier, to prevent a recurrence of such anti-German manifestations.
    The Mayor of Nancy has prohibited the performance of "A Woman's Heart" at the Municipal Theatre there. This is the play which, it is stated, evoked the "patriotic" manifestation at Grenoble.
    It is reported that some of the functionaries responsible for public order in Nancy will be punished for their lack of energy.

    NANCY, April 17.— Emile Ogier, representing the Foreign Office, is making a thorough investigation of the unpleasant incident last Sunday, when five German visitors, two of them women, are said to have been insulted by a crowd of French students. It is not likely that the Government official will make his report for another day or two, as it is desired to allow time for German feeling to subside.
    Serious local opinion is that the two policemen on duty in the neighborhood where the incident occurred should have prevented the crowd from following the strangers to the station and from deriding them.
    The fantastic reports, attributed to commercial travelers, that the Germans were made to kneel before a French officer, are asserted here to be dramatic inventions from the other side of the border.