Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 76, 3 July 1916, Page 2

Germany

FATAL FOOD RIOTS.

A DINNERLESS SUNDAY.

TROOPS CHARGE CITIZENS.

United Press Association. (Received 9.0 a.m.) Berne, July 2. A copy of the Nuchnerpost, which was confiscated for publishing details of the hunger riots, snows that the

citizens were faced with a dinnerless Sunday. They paraded the streets on Saturday in a chase for food after a

'corporal, who had taken refuge in a I shop, which was wrecked, and cafes were plundered. Troops fixed bayo'nets and cleared the streets, many being wounded. BREAD AND PEACE. REMARKABLE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN COLOGNE. SOLDIERS WOUND POLICEMEN. ; .Received 9.0 a.m.) Amsterdam. July 2. Women and children paraded Cologne on the 24th, asking tor bread and peace. Soldiers who were ordered to shoot declined, and the police and gendarmerie fired, killing and wounding many. Thereupon, the soldiers fired on the police, wounding eighteen. All traffic from Cologne was stopped until mid-week. i LIEBKNECHT, SOCIALIST* BERLIN DEMONSTRATION ENDS IN RIOT. MILITARY TAKE EXTREME MEASURES. (Received 9.0 a.m.) / Amsterdam, July 2. A demonstration in favour of Dr. Liebknecht, the Socialist, at Berlin, ended in a riot. The military wounded ten and arrested fifty. THE LATE VON MOLTKE. DIED OF A BROKEN HEARTKAISER'S MEAN TRICK TO SAVE HIS face: ~,(Received, 9.0 ~a.m.) .. , ■, ■ I '/(.:•, i: Borne, July 2.

Colonel. Gablonsky, military critic, declares that General von Moltke died of a.broken heart. His staff work was responsible'lor the German successes in the early part of the war, hut the Kaiser interfered wi,th his plans, x-aus,-ing subsequent disasters. , The Kaiser meanly put the blame on Moltke to save his own reputation.