HOTS WITH ROYALISTS

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 112, 13 May 1924, Page 5

HOTS WITH ROYALISTS

COMMUNISTS AT HALLE. X/DDENDORFF'S ZNIXtTZIfCE. MAHY PEOPUB XXZXCD. '* Br Cable.—Press Association.—Copyrtglitl .. p BERLIN, May 12. * Communists and the police came into onflict at Halle, where General Luden- a lorff had planned the biggest Imperial G iageant since the Armistice, to celebrate „ he unveiling of the restored Yon „ tfoltke monument. f Officers and men. numbering 250,000, leaded by bands, marched past the „ tatue. The officers included 22 generals, c Admirals yon Tirpitz and Scheer, and r ilso Prince Oscar. The Communists organised a counter- { lemonstration, as a result of which at j east six of the police were killed and in unknown number of Communists were ] rounded. I Another Communist demonstration ;ook place at the Berlin racecourse, j »here there were numerous collisions be- < tween the Nationalists and the police j before the latter broke up the meeting. The Communists then seized a brewery md fired revolvers indiscriminately until »rmoured cars arrived on the scene. The t police then stormed the brewery, killing four of the Communists and making hun- - Ireds of arrests.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) |