A’BERLIN FIGH

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1067, 3 September 1930, Page 14

A’BERLIN FIGH

COUNCIL COMES TO BLOWS A ferocious free fight, in which at least a score of persons are said to have been involved, brought to a dost a sitting of the Berlin Municipal Conn* cil (says the “EFaily Telegraph )• The spark which was the immediate cause of the explosion is understooc to have been the accidental pressure of a hard Republican boot sole on at over-sensitive Monarchist toe. But the powder cask had been prepared by a futile attempt of the National Socialists (whose ranks, by the way, just been strengthened by the ac c ®s* sion of the ex-Kaiser’s son. Prin August Wilhelm, previously the hope of the Steel Helmets) to upset tne Young Plan by municipal resolutions The treading on the toe acted i the pulling of the trigger of a IP 2 • It took place in the centre of an ag tated mob of councillors packed rou the rostrum, and at once “set tn off.” Gesticulations became blows anu open hands clutched at the near hostile collar. . . OTl ,a Monarchists, Fascists, Socialists Communists swayed to and fro i inextricable tangle, and at t®- ~ seemed as if all the combatants roll over together on to the noo one heaving and palpitating mass. Finding that the ringing of his D was completely ignored by the ated fighters, the president closedtn sitting and the City Fathers beg disperse. The fracas seems to petered out through the sheer e tion of its participants.