"BREAD OR PEACE."
FOOD RIOTS IN GERMANY. POLICE FIRE ON CROWD. SOLDIERS FIRE ON POLICE. (Received 10.5 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, July 2. Women and children paraded the streets of Cologne on the 24th of month, asking for bread and peace. The soldiers were ordered to shoot but declined. The police and gendarmerie fired, killing and wounding many. Thereupon the soldiers fired on the police, wounding eighteen. All traffic from Cologne was stopped until the middle of the week. BERNE, July 2. A copy of the Munich "Post," which was confiscated for publishing details of the hunger riots, shows that the citizens were faced with the prospect of having no dinner on Sunday, so they paraded the streets on Saturday, and chased the food Corpora], who had taken refuge in a shop. This shop was wrecked and cafes -were plundered. Troops with fixed bayonets cleared the streets. Many people were wounded.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 157, 3 July 1916, Page 6
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