THE BERLIN RIOTS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 September 1910, Page 3

THE BERLIN RIOTS.

VIOLENT ATTACK OX LONDON

JOURNALISTS

EXTRAORDIN AltV SCENES

POLICE URGE ON THE CROWD

[BY ELECTItIC TULEOIUI'II-COrYIUCnT.] [PER ntESS ASSOCIATION.] BEULIN, September 29. Mir Wile, the Daily 'Mail correspondent, Mr Tower of the Daily .News, Dr. Shaw, of the New York Sua, and 1 Mr Lawrence, Renter's Jcorlrcspoiideiit, were. motoring tlirough Tunmsrasso in i»uirsun nee of the Police-Lieutenant's assurance that there would be no objection. Thev slopped their motor car to watch' Hie polico driving the people through the open space called the Kleineticr Garten.

Half a dozen ipoliconien, after driving a couple of young girls through the bushes, returned to the. pavement and a detective immediately ordered them to attack the motor car.

They thereupon ruthlessly slashed the occupants of the car witili sharpened sabi'cs. Wile received a nasty blow on the 'head from the flat of a sword. Dr. Shaw was struck heavily on the arm and face, the blow being broken by the car. Mr Tower was struck' and badjy bruised, and Mr Lawrence was struck repeatedly over the right arm and shoulder, having both hands out and the tendon of the middle linger of the right .band laid bare. Many thousands of lactory hands have gathered at Maobit. The authorities have restricted access to the riot area to residents, and have closed the taverns. The police were provided with flares and the rioters have been driven to the inmost recesses of Moabit.

The rioters filled I'Jmbden and Turin streets, yelling and cursing and throwing stones, whereupon the police wielded their sabres so vigorously that the wounded strewed both sides of the streets.

Others were ridden down, and in all twenty were conveyed to tin Moabit Hospital. One rioter died of a fractured skull, and a policeman, succumbed J.o knife wounds. J* BIG BATCH OF WOUNDED. (Received This Daw 10.10 a.m.) BERLIN. September 2!b Two hundred and seventy three persons were wounded in the Moabit quarters in Wednesday's riots. MANAGER "SUSPENDED. LONDON, September 29. Mr Sydney Buxton. President of the Board of Trade, has suspended the manager of a Bradford Inborn exchange, owing to. the latter reminding employers of the biboui exchange's services in idling vacancies (hn'ing disputes in the wool rouibiugx industry, expressing the hope that employers would reciprocate in normal times by niakitm of the exchange. The Arbitration Court raise:! wool eonibimr warehousemen's wages to a uniform rate of 2-1 s pei ! week from August, 11)11. ami '-Ms from August, 1912.