POTATO RIOTS IN GERMANY
CROWDS DEFY THE SOLDIERS MANY WOUNDED BY BULLETS Amsterdam, July 3. The later potato riots at Dusseldorf were more serious. Crowds looted barges and trucks, and street battles occurred with the police and soldiers. The crowds were defiant. Women bared (heir breasts and dared the soldiere to shoot.'. Eventually the soldiers fired, killing one and wounding many.—Eeuter. (Kec. July 5, 7.25 p.m.) Amsterdam, July i. , In further food rioting the. women stormed a frozen meat warehouse, took and distributed four pigs, and plundered a butcher's shop. Troops charged and cleared the streets.—Eeuter.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3129, 6 July 1917, Page 5
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96POTATO RIOTS IN GERMANY Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3129, 6 July 1917, Page 5
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