IN GERMANY.
—.ANARCHY IN BERLIN‘. _ LONDON, June 26. A great outbreak of lfiawlessnesg in Berlin followed denioiistrations for and against the treaty. Armed mobs plundered many shops, robbed pedestrians, and attacked soldiers ‘and police, All night long there was shooting in the streets. Serious ‘disturbances occurred at Mannheim, Where shops and houses were plundered. The troops resisted the attempts of rioters to enter the barracks, using grenades. Thirty were seriously injured, and two hundred arrests were made, Spartacist riots occurred at Cassel Where martial law was proclaimed. An attempt to storm the prison was un‘successful, but the food warehouses were seized. Firearms Were -freely used, and a number og-E casualties occurred. '
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Taihape Daily Times, 28 June 1919, Page 5
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111IN GERMANY. Taihape Daily Times, 28 June 1919, Page 5
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