BARRICADE FIGHTING

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 102, 4 May 1929, Page 9

BARRICADE FIGHTING

COMMUNISTS AMD POLICE HEAVY CASUALTIES United P;r OS s Association—By Electric Tslw graph—Copyright. Australian Press Associates—United Serrfc*, (Received 4th May, 11 a.m.) BERLIN, 3rd May. Details of the barricade fighting show that it was more serious than, cabled at first. The casualties number three hundred. The armoured cars advanced against barricades in Harmannstrassc, which was blocked for a mile with felled trees. When the police stormed the stronghold, the prospects of the conflict were so serious that it was decided to postpone the attack till daybreak, foreseeing heavy bloodshed. la the Neukoelln quarter there was renewed rioting and looting of shops. Th 9 district has the appearance of a battleheld, the streets bespattered witti blood suggesting that, the rioters sustained heavier losses than they admit Rioting is reported "in the harbour district of Hamburg, and drastic measures which might be applied to a conquered town in wartime have been proclaimed. In the Wedding and Neukoelln districts nobody is allowed in tha street between .9 p.m. and 4 a.m., except doctors and nurses, and even in the daytime nobody is allowed to stand in doorways. Groups of three or more are forbidden. The cafes and beerhouses are closed at 9 o'clock. Tha police state that this is necessary to show the Communists that they mean furthT 5 ' T iU ruthlessl >' suppress further efforts to cause trouble Intermittent fighting continues in the ' £onT?£ St riaUlltS- demonstrators stoned the police from windows Tha police fired a machine-gun, -and two wotZ:? r<\ ki!i° d- • Moßt ot *"<> habitants took refuge m the cellars.