BAVARIAN BRUTALITY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18808, 10 March 1923, Page 17

BAVARIAN BRUTALITY

BRITISHERS ASSAULTED. OFFICER’S WIFE ROBBEDLONDON, February 24. An accompanying a British officer and his wife to a concert in aid of the Ruhr unemployed, held at the hotel at which the officer was staying, in GannischPartcukirschen, a Bavarian winter sports resort, had an unpleasant experience. The British visitors had been invited to the concert, and had accepted and subscribed to the unemployed fund. While they were paying their bill the orchestra struck up “Deutschland, Über Alles.” Not half a dozen bars were played, and the visitors had no time to realise what was happening, before a crowd of excited Germans hustled them from the table, angrily demanding why they were nut standing while the national anthem was being played. Without waiting for an explanation or apology, the officer’s wife was dragged to the ground, her necklace torn off, and her neck badly bruised. Her pocket-book, which had been on the table before the disturbance, and which contained a considerable sum, disappeared and was not recovered. The Australian, proceeding to his home, which was some distance from the hotel, was followed by an angry crowd, which attacked him, inflicting nasty wounds on the head. Early next morning the police asked the British visitors to leave the hotel at once, and the management refused to serve them with breakfast before they left. The attack has been reported to the British Consul at Munich.