THE BERLIN RIOTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 148, 1 October 1910, Page 5

THE BERLIN RIOTS

REVOLUTION" IX MINIATURE. A PREARRANGKD AFFAIR. By Ottble. —Press Association. —Copyright. Berlin, September 29. Troops are htld in readiness in tic vicinity of the Moabit quarters, but the authorities fear to summon them lest the intervention of the Army lead to an upheaval in other cities. The otiieial statement from police headquarters says: "This is an extremely serious affair. It is a revolution in miniature. The riots have been carefully planned and there have been simultaneous outbreaks at different point?. Signals were given by loud whistles, and the fact that the Marseillaise was sung simultaneously in widely different planes reTeals system and organisation." Two hunlred and seventy-three were wounded in the Moabit quarter on Wednesday. HOW THEY BEGAN. THE OUTRAGE ON JOURNALISTS. Received 30. 9.30 p.m. Berlin, September 30. Although the riots originated through ttie police protecting blacklegs and igaoriqg a peremptory demand- to arrest •n escorted blackleg who was using a revolver in the crowd, the extreme animosity of the populace was largely dae to the previous employment of the police ■gainst a suffrage demonstration. It is aemi-officially stated that twelvej rioters were arrested on Tuesday night. Nine belonged to the Social Democratic organisations. Four strikers were among the nine. (Much indignation has been shown in gitalin at the \rtwlly unprovoked assault on journalists. A high police official expressed his regret anu suggested that he supposed the detective belonged to the "Kopecick" type, implying that a rioter imposed upon the police and incited the outrage, hoping to involve them in further trouble. A rigid enquiry has been opened.