RIOTS IN BERLIN.
UPROAR IN THE CITY. j POLICE CHARGE WITH SABRES AND PISTOLS. A' HUNDRED CASUALTIES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Berlin, September 27. The police used their sabres against three thousand riotors in Berlin to-night. Many were injured. , The police, who were protecting nonunionists imported to replace the engineering works' strikers, came • into collision with the strikers, whom . they charged, using their sabres and revolvers. Fifty persons were seriously, and eighty slightly injured. The strikers fired revolvers, and pulled up cobble stones from the streets, and threw them at the police, who were protecting the blacklegs.. Major Klein,then ordered the police to charge with drawn swords. ' '■' ' During the night rioting was general in the Hoabit quarter of.the city.' ; •*; The.mob- smashed:the street lamps, aid windows of the better houses, stormed the Church of the Reformation,. and broke the windows and demolished the. interior. The police! were helpless. Thirty-eight . were wounded .'- by stones and knife thrusts. Over one hundred strikers were injured,
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 934, 29 September 1910, Page 5
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160RIOTS IN BERLIN. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 934, 29 September 1910, Page 5
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