MAY DAY RIOTS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20096, 27 November 1930, Page 11

MAY DAY RIOTS.

CHARGES AGAINST BERLIN POLICE. (TSTTIO ?EESO ASSOCIATION—BY EiECTIIC TEiaGBA'®—COPYRIGHT.) (Received November 26th, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, November 25. In oonuexion with the May Day riots last year, when forty civilians, including the New Zealand journalist, CE. Mackay, were killed by the police, tiro police officers and a sergeant were charged with gross ill-treatment ot civilians. The sergeant was sentenced to four months' imprisonment and the officers were acquitted; Evidence was given that the police completely tost their heads and brutilly truncheoned the citiiefts while the officers looked passively on. [C. 35. Ataokay was formerly a rosideht of Waiiganui, and at the time ot his death waa assistant correspondent at Berlin fox the "Daily _ Express." He waa aliot by tJhe police during the rioting. According to cable messages wblisbed at the time, a taxi-driver riJted that he san-the police shooting Si the Herinjmstfassd at regular intop, but nobody was in it. He nl'liw a man walking alone, who siiggered and fell. tie lay for twenty H before the police picked him ra jM sent hiin to a dressing station, ljii mart was later identified as Mackif. Toe inquest merely disclosed that Machy wis killed by a bullet in the aMomeft. It was officially explained tlitMackay entered the danger aone 3bP4 the police warnings and that in did so St his own risk."]