AT THE EMBASSIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 96, 18 September 1914, Page 8

AT THE EMBASSIES.

..SCENES OF VIOLENCE. St. Petersburg, via London, August 5. The German Embassy here was wrecked and a bonlire made of the furniture and pictures by an angry crowd to-day. The people were angered by the report of what they bad deemed an indignity shown to the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna,, who was stopped in Berlin on her way from to St. Petersburg, and was compelled by the German autiiorities to go to Copenhagen. FURNITURE THROWN OUT. -An entrance was forced by the crowd through the windows. Most of the rooms were wrecked and the furniture pitched into the streets. A number of students and workmen climbed to the roof of the Embassy and tore the golden eagle from the top of the flagstaff. They then ran up the Russian Hag. A massive statuary depicting a- group, of horses led by men was backed to pieces with axes, and the debris was thrown into the canal. A bonlire was made of the contents of the embassy, and an attempt was made t» put a torch to the building, but mounted police routed the rioters.

Another crowd later tried to repeat the performance at the Austrian Embassy, but that building was too strongly guarded. The body of a Russian footman is alleged by the authorities to have been found in the German Embassy. The man had been shot in the head and stabbed, and had been d«ad for some days. ALLEGED BERLIN OUTRAGE. The Russian Ambassador in Berlin, M. de Sverbew, and his staff are reported to have been subjected to much abuse after tile declaration of war. Some of the members of t.f ambassadorial suite, including Princess Charovitski, are alleged to have been struck by persons in the crowd, which followed their motor cars to the railway station when they were leaving Berlin. According to an eye-witness, the embassy was surrounded, and when tne Ambassador, who was escorted b) mounted police, departed for the station in an automobile, the people hurlt'd a storm of abusa him, llic ponce had the greatest dilliculty hi protecting him and the members of his stall.

STOXJiR ARE THROWS. Friends of the Ambassador, who followed him'in motor cars, also arc saiil to have been forced to run a gauntlet of hostile Germans. The crowd followed the cars, abusing the occupants ol them, throwing stones, spitting in the faces of the Embassy stall', and striking both men ami women with sticks and umbrellas, it is said. •M. Cliarovitski was struck ft sever.; blow on the head which cut his scalp. Jle is said to be. under medical treatment in Copenhagen.

Princess Belosselsky was hit on her back anil shoulder by an old, well-dress-ed man, and other persons in tlie crowd spat at her. Other members of the party are declared to have been similarly treated. The children were placed in the bottom of thp automobiles, in order to protect them. —San Francisco Examiner.