UNREST IN SAAR
Brawls Mark Opening 01
New Year
BATTLES IN STREETS By Telegraph.—Tress Assn.—Copyright. (■'Tinies” Cable.) (Received January 2, 7.25 p.m.) London, January 2. The Saarbrucken correspondent of “The Times” .says that despite the first friendly celebrations, 1935 opened with shooting brawls. Six native police joining in the festivities were roughly handled, whereupon they arrested several airti-Nazls. The police were subsequently suspended for allowing party prejudice to interfere with duty. Elsewhere a mob, suspected to be members of the German Front, fired revolvers at the windows of a house, wounding a French engineer and his wife. Special police mens-, tires are expected to prevent a recurrence.
A Saarbrucken message states that rival’factions foright a revolver battle in a street at Ensdorf, resulting in 23 casualties. Three were injured in a similar fracas at Eberhahn,
Another restaurant battle developed in the Malstaat district when members of the Hitler youth movement and others engaged in a fierce political quarrel. ■ Fifty shots were fired. The Hitlerites took refuge behind tables. One was wounded, and the restaurant was wrecked.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 84, 3 January 1935, Page 7
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176UNREST IN SAAR Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 84, 3 January 1935, Page 7
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