SWITZERLAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1917, Page 5

SWITZERLAND.

CONSTANTINO'S WARM RECEPTION. ABUSED ANDSTONED IN SWITZERLAND. Received June 22,. 12.50 a.m. Berne, June 2! Constantine had a hot reception. Crowds surrounded the frontier station at Chiasso, and hooted and shouted'abuse at him till after he arrived at Lugano'. When Constantine went for a walk he was recognised, pursued, surrounded, hooted, stoned and abu-ed. He took refuge in a house for half an houj-, and then regained his hotel under strung police protection. The crowd noisily demonstrated oulside till a lwte hour. ' • ■ " WE WANT THE SPY." SWISS THOROUGHLY ROUSED. . ATTACK ON GERMAN CONSULATE * ' Received June 22, 1.30 a.m. Geneva, Jum- 21. The demonstrators proceeded to the hotel where Prince Bulow was recently staying, demanding that he should apj pear, but the landlord' explained that Bulow had left. The crowd shouted: "We want the spy," and the orchestra played the Marseillaise in order to mollify the crowd, which waved Entente flags. The crowd then procee led to the ''or • man Consulate and stoned the coat of arms, watch was .subsequently throw.] into the *)ake. All the window-: were smashed. Subsequently the police rharged the crowds, thirty police being injured. Eighteen arrests were made. AN EARLY PEACE. , > i HOFFMANN'S ACTION EXPLAINED. Beme, Juno 20. An- official explanation states that Hoffmann acted with a view to encouraging an early peace, therefore in Switzerland's own interests. 'Paris, June 20.' Following the Hoffmann crime episode, tne Russian Government prohibited Odier sending cipher messages to his Government. Marcel Hutin, in the Echo de Paris, says that Prince von Bulow dictated terms to Hoffmann and a telegram to ■ Grimm. Received June 21, 11, p.m. Geneva, June 21. Fifteen thousand demonstrators demanded further investigation into the Hoffmann episode. There were disturbances outside the German, Austrian, and Turkish Consulates. The German coat of arms was torn down. t