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BERLIN CITY COUNCIL.

PROTEST LEADS TO RIOT. trouble over FINANCES. (CMrED PRESS ASSOCIATION—ET ELECTRIC LKGhapu—COPYRIGHT.) (Received November 28tli, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, November 28. vhen tiie Speaker of the Berlin City Council read the Governor's Decree appointing commissioners to control tlie nances of the Council, pandemonium ->!"() *x out. A Communist member, while the Speaker repeatedly called for order read a violent protest full of insinuations against the Government, demanding that the citizens should refuse ""municipal taxation. • Speaker's order, ejected all Communists, upon which the Nationalists marched out en masse. nemployed broke in, and erected barricades with chairs and tables, w ncli the police stormed, overpoweriiig, truncheoning, and ejecting the disturbers. Five of the police were injured.

TAXES INCREASED. BERLIN'S INDEBTEDNESS. BI3IILTN, November 27. Because the City Council, obstructing all attempts at interference, refused to pass Uio 1930 Budget, the Governor has appointed two KUilo Commissioners to regulato muddled finances. Berlin is at present indebted to the extent of £5,000,000. The commissioners will declare and supervise the collection of a per capita tax of 10 per cent., a tax on beer and spirits, and an additional property tax. Similar steps are contemplated in other towns.

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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20098, 29 November 1930, Page 15

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BERLIN CITY COUNCIL. Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20098, 29 November 1930, Page 15

BERLIN CITY COUNCIL. Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20098, 29 November 1930, Page 15

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