GERMANY WITHIN
(by Electric Telegraph— Ciih’i iglp.,• rAUSTRALIAN A. N.Z. CAlll.fi ASSOCIATION./ GERMAN COAL MINERS. BERLIN, January 15.
There is a strike of coal miners in the Homborn district in the Ruhr coal region. The miners demand a six hour day, and also better food. The strike caused some rioting throughout yesterday. Later a mob stormed the Hopborn Town Hal], seizing some arms. The disturbances lafcei: spread to other districts. Owing to a. railway difficulty half a million tons of coal for Berlin are now held up. The interruption in coal production threatens to paraliso the entire Rhenish and Westphalian industrial regions.
GERMAN RIOTING. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) BERLIN, .Jan.’ J 3. Demonstrators molested deputies on the way to the Reichstag. Traffic was held up in the vicinity of the Reichstag. A sfate of siege has been proclaimed in the greater part of Ger-, tunny. Railway communication with Holland is interrupted. The '■ ‘Veewaerts” claims that the Government is in no way to blame for the bloodshed, and says the police did not fine until ten of their members had been carried away wounded.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1920, Page 2
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