HOWLING MOBS IN BERLIN.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 935, 30 September 1910, Page 5

HOWLING MOBS IN BERLIN.

EXCESSES BY YOUNQ GIRLS. SPIRIT STORES AND BEER SHOPS LOOTED, FIERCE RIOTING. V By Teleeraph—Press Aseociation-Oopyrieht Berlin, September 28. . A painful feature of the riots arising out of the engineers' strike was the excesses committed by young girls, and the. worst class of Berlin females.' The police state. that the rioters at-, tacked all decently dressed persons. Many spirit stores were looted. A hoyling mob scattered the police, two' of whom hid in a bed 'in a beershop. The crowd demolished the interior of the place, and fatally battered the innkeeper,; and his wife. One policeman, , who fired on the mob until his ammunition had been exhausted, was discovered later to be desperately wounded. The majority of the rioters were betterclass artisans.

There was fierce rioting in the Moabit quarter to-night, j. wounded strew the streets. RIOTERS ROUNDED UP BY POLICE. . (Rec. September 30, 1.30 a.m.) : - r. Berlin, September 29.' 1 Many thousands of factory hands are gathered ,in the Moabit quarter of the city.' , v.",. The authorities have restricted access, to the riot area to residents ... only, and have, closed the taverns. The police were provided with. . flaTes, and the rioters were driven to the inmost recesses of Moabit. They filled Embden and Turin Streets, yelling,' cursing, and throwing stones. the police sabres were wieldedso . vigorously "that the .-wounded strewed both sides of the streets, and others were ridden down'. . r • Twenty persons. were . conveyed to Moabit Hospital. One rioter died with, a fractured • skull, and a policeman succumbed; to knife wounds. ;.