ANTI-AMERICAN RIOT IN BERLIN.
HOTEL STORMED BY AN ANGRY MOB. There was a violent anti-Ameri-can demonstration in Berlin following the return of General ‘von Lct-tow-Vorbeck and the German East African force. The returned warriors were accorded a great reeeptionJiy immense crowds. Flowers were thrown and the bauds played “Deutschland über Allies.” Outside the Hotel Adlon, which overlooks the Pariser Platz, the crowd espied American soldiers on the balcony. Instantly there was a rush for the hotel, the crowd crying; “Throw out the Americans who are swine and arc eating our food.” A cordon of police was (brown around the hotel and the doors were barred. The crowd still waited outside, and it was not until lute in the evening that troops were able to clear the streets.
Earlier two workmen entered the hotel, and demanded to be taken to an American private, who, they alleged, had made a threatening gesture to the crowd. The “threatening gesture” was a wave of the hand. Their demand was refused.
“It’s all in the day’s work,” was (he laconic comment of Captain Maun, the adjutant of (he United States troops quartered in the hotel.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1973, 6 May 1919, Page 4
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190ANTI-AMERICAN RIOT IN BERLIN. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1973, 6 May 1919, Page 4
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