REICHSTAG BRAWL

Hokitika Guardian, 8 December 1932, Page 6

REICHSTAG BRAWL

NAZIS AND COMMUNISTS ROW

DAMAGES AND INJURIES

(United Press Association—Py Electric Telugi pn—Copyngnt.)

(Received this day at 12.45 p.m.) Amid yells of ‘‘Down with lßndenburg!” Nazi s and Communists exchanged vo,!leys of ashtrays, telephone le ' ceivers, spittoons, and inkpots in th’ Reichstag, when a Communist attack on von Hindenburg loosed bedlam. Uniformed Nazis hurled themselves at the spectators, who joined in the fray on the stairs leading to the public galleries, hurling a table which smashed a candelabra; Several were injured, and the session was temporarily adjourned. The brawl was th<? result ol ti terrible explosion in a PremO.itz dyoworks, killing seven, being made the pretext for an anti-capita,Pst outburst. Later th 0 attack switched to Hindenburg, whom the Communists described as responsible for the Versailles Treaty. The battle ended with the Communists being driven by superior numbers into their own lobby. A number of the contestants were cut and bruised, but the worst -sufferers were the public officials who, with arms outstretched,' sought to separate the brawlers.