EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGE.

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

EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGE.

1 PRESSMEN ATTACKED. : . 7 MOTOR-PARTY BATTERED BY 1 POLICE. j (Rec.:, September 30; 0.35 a.m.) ■ ' • Berlin, September 29. •'A: number of British and American newspaper correspondents' received an extraordinary handling by the Berlin police during the riots ; - A party of pressmen, consisting, .of''Mr. Wile, the 'TJaily : Mail" ';corresp6riderit, Mr. Tower, of , the "Daily News,'V Dr. Shaw, of the New York "Sun," and Mr. Lawrenoe, of Reuter's "Agency, - weremotoring through tho Turm Strasso in pursuance of a police lieutenant's ance, that, there was., no 'objection. ' ; , They stopped their, motor-car to- watoh tho pplico • driving the • people. through an ,open space called the; Kleine Tiergarten; Half a dozen policemen, .after driving : a couple of young, .girls through.; some bushes,: returned , to tho pavement, a deteotive immediately ordering' 'them ,to attack the car. . ■ They .then ruthlessly slashed tho occupants with sharpened sabres.- Mr. 'Wile, received :'a; nasty blow on the head from i flat of *' sword. Dr. Shaw, was struck heavily on Hie arm and . face. The' . blow, V.however,'': was broken by'tho car. Mr. Tower., was . 'also struck and" bruised.'Mr. Lawrenco was struck repeatedly over the right : arm and. shoulder. Both' his hands were ; cut,, and - the' tendon' of . ; the. middle, finger, of his right : hand was laid bare. • ', .• : The scene was brilliantly lighted.; Tram-' cars-were passing, and there ; were .;.no crowds, the only occupants of the' pavement being the police and .the chauffeur! Tha \ "Daily Telegraph" correspondent 'was .also bidden to depart. He'adds: that ■the. police desire aimonopoly in reporting matters.' - • ■■' •