SOCIALISM.
Bkrlin, March 7. On the understanding that Socialists intended to carry a franchise demonstration at Treptow (a south-eastern suburb of Berlin), a party of Berlin police assembled there to prevent it.
The Socialist newspaper Voerwarts, however, announced that a franchise promenade would take place instead.
While a few Socialists kept the the police at Treptow busy, between fifty thousand and a hundred thousand marched to the Tiergarten (the popular pleasureground of the Berlinese). The mob sang the “Marseillaise,” and then proceeded 10 unfurl the revolutionary ensign on the steps of the Reichstag. The crowd became desperate, and mounted police charged up the steps.
A section of the Socialists marched to Treptow Park and tried to break through the cordon of police. Mounted gendarmery immediately charged the crowd, the mounted men discharging carbines and the police using revolvers and sabres.
Twenty-five of the demonstrators were wounded.
Twenty-eight thousand troops are now confined in barracks in case of emergencies.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 811, 10 March 1910, Page 3
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158SOCIALISM. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 811, 10 March 1910, Page 3
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