Riots in Germany.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 146, 29 September 1910, Page 5

Riots in Germany.

.'POLICE CHARGE STRIKERS. OVER 100 INJURED. By Cable. —'Press Association,—-Copyright. Berlin, September 27. The police protecting non-unionists imported to replace the strikers in the engineering works came into collision with the strikers, whom they charged, using sabres and revolvers. Fifty were ■seriously'and eighty slightly injured. The strikers fired revolvers, pulled up cobblestones from the streets and threw them at the police who were protecting the "blacklegs," Major Klein ordered a charge with drawn sabres. During the night rioting was general ,5n ..the Moahit quarter. The mob smashed street lamps, the -windows of the better houses, and stormed the >Church of the Reformation and broke its windows and damaged the interior. .The police were helpless, and' 38 were Wounded (by- stones and knife thrusts. Over a hundred strikers were injured. The riots continued to-night, and the ; police used their sabres on tihree tihou>aand rioters. Many tf.ere injured. WOMAN AND CHILDREN USED AS •' SHIELDS. UNPRECEDENTED SCENE.

i Received September 29, 12.20 a.m. Berlin, September 28. .•Last night 90 were injured, including imany cut with saibres, one fatally. Half a dozen policemen were injured. The fewness of the casualties at .the outset is due to the rioters previously ; using .women and' children as shields. The police were unable for some time to .utfe tiheir weapons, and were therefore enjoined yesterday to fully use saibres if ifurther attacks were made, and to fire .at -the windows if missiles were thrown •thence. The 'rioters were warned that it was impossible to spare the women and children if they were used as a shield. 'Five .-separate collision® occurred last night, but the police were content to scatter the-mobs by intermittent charges and the Vigorous application of the flat of the sabre, using the edge against recalcitrants, until a revolver shot came from tihe b&Lcony in the Brussel Strasse. The police then freely used their pistols, and the infuriated rioter® returned the fusillade with beer glasses, bottles And eoail briquettes. A final charge cleared the thoroughfores. Police, armed to the teeth, are at all strategic point# on ftfoe bridges, street crossings, alleys, eeurtyards and factories. Police entered an upper flat when missiles were thrown, a "woman, hurling a lighted lamp. Lucidly, it was extinguished. Tile mobs dispersed'at ■midnight. " Tlhe riots are described as unparalleled since 1648.