BUTTER RIOT.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 January 1916, Page 7

BUTTER RIOT.

GERMAN WOMEN RAID "DAIRIES. According .to the. Amsterdam, correspondent of an English exchange, a demonstration, in which more than IiOO women took part, was held m. front of the premises of the Dairy Produce Company, in the Forststrassc, at Chemnitz, to protest against the high pvice of butter. While' one of the spokeswomen was loudly giving vent to her grievances, eight' men, armed with whips, emerged from the building, and endeavoured to disperse the crowd. The demonstrators thereupon hurled their milk bottles and jugs at the men, who had to heat a hurried retreat. Other demonstrations were held in front of the offices of Ihe "Volksstimme," and numbers of dairy establishments had their windows smashed, i Final!v, the town authorities confiscated the whole available stock of butter. The Cologne (hue-He says:—The tension lias become so great that, some means of relief must be found, and that quickly. Never, perhaps, have the masses of the'Cerman people experienced a time of such privation. Bread has risen on an average by 70 per cent., butler 100 per cent., and meat 150 per cent. It goes without saying that this is ft state of affairs with which the measures adopted by the authorities up to the present are utterly unable to cope. A much more drastic intervention is necessary :to avert impending disaster.