TWO SERIOUS OUTBREAKS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2814, 4 July 1916, Page 6

TWO SERIOUS OUTBREAKS

FATAL ENCOUNTERS WITH TROOPS

Australian-.*^-,r Zealand Cable Association, Berno, July 2. A copy of tho "JlunchnorPost," which Iras confiscated for publishing details of -the hunger, riots, shows that the citizens were faced with a dinnerless Sunday, and they paraded the streets on Saturday. They chased a food corporal, who took refuge in a shop. The shop was wrecked, and cafes were plundered. The troops, with fixed bayonets, cleav- . -ed.the streets." Many people were ' wounded. • ; "BREAD OR PEACE!" Amsterdam, July 2. * Women and .children paraded Cologne on June 24, ; asking 'for bread or peace. The soldiers were ordered to. shoot, but doclined. The police i and gendarmerie .fired, killing and wounding many. Thereupon the soldiers fired on the-police, . wounding', eighteeen.- • All traffic, from Cologne! was stopped ' until, the middle of the week.' - . LIEBKNECHT RIOT IN BERLIN. Amsterdam, July 2. ■ A demonstration in Berlin in favour of Herr Liebknecht ended in a riot. The military wounded ten people and 'arrest- ' cd ifty. (Rec. July/ 3, 5.15 p.m.)' London, July 3. A: pamphlet lias been circulated in Germany... protesting, against the action . against Dr. Liebknecht. It says:—"Let tie assassins oondemh Liebknecht if they dare!'- Their judgment will awaken in the Empire, and in the trenches such an ■ eoho: that 'the authors : will.; lose : both . their, hearing and sight!'