RIOTING IN BERLIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 May 1943, Page 3

RIOTING IN BERLIN

FIGHTING BETWEEN CROWD & STORM TROOPS OVER REFUSAL OF NEWS FROM AFRICA. INCIDENTS IN OTHER PARTS. OF GERMANY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, May 13. In a message passed by the German censor, the Berlin correspondent of the Gothenburg "Handels Tidningen” reports that rioting broke out in Berlin outside the Wehrmacht’s Information Office when thousands of women and elderly men gathered seeking information concerning their relatives in Africa. The correspondent says: “They were brusquely dismissed and told they would be given the necessary information at the appropriate time. Thereupon the crowd began rioting and Storm Troopers were called out. Fighting occurred between the crowd and the Storm Troopers, but the troops did not use their fire-arms.” The correspondent reports similar incidents in other parts of Germany. LITTLE FOUNDATION FOR REPORTS REGARDING ENEMY COUNTRIES. ACCORDING TO BRITISH CORRESPONDENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) (Received This Day. 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, May 14. The British United Press slates there (s little foundation for a number of rumours from Europe, including the claim of internal disruption in Italy or th;ft thousands of people rioted outside the Wehrmacht Information Bureau, in Berlin, in an effort to obtain news of the Germans in Tunisia, but a demonstration certainly occurred.