THE BERLIN RIOTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 147, 30 September 1910, Page 5

THE BERLIN RIOTS

SmCE FIGHTING. ; INNKEEPER- AND WIFE BEATEST ISO! DEATH. ; By Cable.—'Press Association.—Copyright.; A gainful feature of the rists was ffce .excesses committed by young .girls «f itfae .worst class of Berlin females. SDhe .police state that tihe rioters -attacked all decently dressed people, .and many looted the spirit stores. A. fowling, mob scattered the : police. IPwo constables 'bid under a /bed in a beershop. The crowd demolished the interior, and beat the innkeeper and.his jrife.to-death, j ifitae .policeman fired' Mo the mob until Mb ammunition was exhausted,-and was.afterwards discovered te toecdesper•tely .wounded. The-majority of the rioters mere, artisans of the better class. .Further fierce rioting occanEedin.tihe Hoabit quarter to-night -POLICE ATTACK JOURSMUBTS. HEWSPAPEK CORRESPOSIBENTS WOUNDED. Rcedved September 30, 12;35 ;aun. Berlin, September 29. ,Mr Wile (Daily Mail correspondent), Mr. .Tower (Daily News), Dr. Shaw (New Work Sun) and Mr. Lawrence Neuter's correspondent) were motoring through ithe Turmstrasse. In pursuance M a police lieutenant's assurance that there was no objection, they stopped the anator car to watch the police driving the people through an open space, called ihe Kleinetier Garten. Half a dozen policemen, after driving a couple of young girls through the bushes, ißfiurned to the pavement, and a detectiwe immediately ordered them to -attack the occupants of the car. Theyiruthlessly slashed the occupants with sharpened sabres. Mr. Wile received a nasty blow «n the bead with the flat of a sword: Dr. Shaw was struck heavily on the arm and face, but the blow was broken iy 4he car. Mr. Tower was struck and bruised, And Mr. Lawrence was struck repeatedly over the right arm and shoulder. Both of his hontils were art, and 1 the tendon of the middle finger of the right hand was laid ■•ire-.- • The scene was brilliantly lighted. Tram cars were passing, and there \were no crowds, the only occupants of the pavement being the police and the chauffeur. The party of correspondents was *bidden to depart, as the police desire the monopoly of reporting matters in connection with the riots. DEALING WITH RIOTERS. ■TTREETS STREWN WITH WOUNDED. Received September SO, 1.30 a.m. Berlin, September-29. Many thousands of factory hands gathered in .the Moabit district, but the authorities restricted access to the riot' atrea to *esiidlents, and closed -the taverns. The police -were provided with flares, and the-rioters were driven to the inmost recesses «f the quarter. They filled the ; back stseets, yelling, cursing and throwing stones, whereupon the sabres, were wielded so vigorously 'that the wounded strewed txith sides'of the streets. Others were ridden down, and tweaty were conveyed to the Moaibit Hospital. One rioter died of a fractured skull. A policeman succumbed to knife wounds.