THE UNEMPLOYED IN BERLIN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9039, 24 January 1908, Page 5

THE UNEMPLOYED IN BERLIN.

GREAT MASS MEETING. MERCILESS ATTACK BY POLICE. SIXTY THOUSAND WORKLESS CITIZENS. Received January 23, 8.30 a.m. BERLIN, January 22. Twelve thousand unemployed met in Berlin and demanded that the State should undertake building work at trade union wages, the removal of food taxes, and also the* immediate institution of municipal rcilef works. They repudiated the acceptance of charity. Armed police provoked some disorder bv unnecessary interference. Thinking that some of the unemployed were trying to force a passage over a bridge, they drew their sabres and mercilessly slashed many, until there were pools of blood in the strcsts The Socialist newspaper "Vorwaerts" estimates that there are 60,000 unemployed in Berlin. THE TIMES. PROBABLE NEW DIRECTORATE. Received January 23, 8.20 a.m. LONDON, January 22. The Pall Mall Gazette states that the new directorate of "The Times" will he composed of three members of the Walters family, Sir Edward Tennant, and Mr C . A. Pearson. TIFLIS MAIL ROBBERY. ARRESTS IN SWEDEN AND SWITZERLAND. Received January 23, 8.25 a.m. STOCKHOLM, January 22. Vladimir Kruschinsky, a Russian, was arrested here on a charge of attempting to change bank notes, the proceeds of the Tiflis mail van robbery, in July last. Another suspect has been arrested at Geneva. (The sum of £25,000 in notes was stolen from the mail van). A RIOT IN ROSCOMMON. TWENTY PERSONS ARRESTED.

Received January 23, 8.25 a.m. LONDON, January 22. Twenty persons were arrested at Geevagh, Roscommon, for participating in a riot and unlawfully assembly, and preventing the postal delivery of processes for rent. THE HEAT WAVE IN AUSTRALIA. AN EXAGGERATED STATEMENT. CAUSES ANXIETY AND TROUBLE. Received January 23, 9.22 p.m. The Hon. J. W. Taverner, AgentGeneral for Victoria, states that a cablegram published in x the "Daily Chronicle" announcing that hundreds of thousands in Australia were seriously ill from the heat had caused many anxious enquiries and much trouble with some intending emigrants. SHIPBUILDERS' STRIKE. OBJECT TO REDUCTION IN RATE OF PAY. Received January 23, 8.43 a.m. LONDON, January 23. Hundreds of members of the federated shipbuilding trades in the Northeast of England have struck against an immediate Is per week reduction in time rates, with a further reduction in March. UNITED STATES NAVY. ADMIRAL EVANS' FLEET. EN ROUTE TO THE PACIFIC. Received January 23, 9.22 p.m. NEW YORK, January 23. ® Admiral Evans' fleet has sailed for Punta Arenas, the chief port of Costa Rica, on the Pacific Coast.

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