GERMAN OPERA.
fTOT WANTED IN NEW YORK. SERVICE MEN'S PROTEST. NEW YORK, October 22. Mounted police charged a crowd , o everal hundred service men who wen aassed in front of the Lexington Theatre n order to prevent the production of i Jerrnan opera. They were dispersed bi he police, but later they returnee hrotigh Times Square, where they re •ruited 1,000 civilians. Arriving at tin heatre they engaged in a fight with th< mlice, laying down a barrage of bricks Reuter.) »O FURTHER PERFORMANCES (Received 0.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 22. Following on the disturbances b; sailors and soldiers protesting agains :he performance of German opera, th Vlayor instructed the police to preven : urther performances.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 252, 23 October 1919, Page 5
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117GERMAN OPERA. Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 252, 23 October 1919, Page 5
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