FIRST BLOODSHED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 262, 4 November 1932, Page 7

FIRST BLOODSHED.

GERMAN ELECTION. Communists Open Fire on Group Of Nazis. BERLIN IN THROES OF STRIKE. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 11.30 a.m.) BERLIN, November 3. The first bloodshed in connection with the election occurred in the harbour district of Hamburg, where Communists opened fire on a group of Nazis, who were posting placards extolling Hitlerism. Eleven were seriously wounded and several pedestrians were also hurt. The Communists fled, but the police surrounded the district, making a house to house se.ireh, and arrested 200, including numerous women and girls. The Stahlhehns are reported to have written the ex-Kaiser protesting against a recent speech by Prince August, and hinting that the Prince's allowance should be stopped if he persists in attacking the Stahlhelm organisation, Which is one of the most faithful in its adherence to Monarchism. Although a strike ballot on the wage reduction of one farthing an.Jjour failed to yield a two-thirds majority, a partial strike by tramway, bus and tube railway employees, begun early this morning, became general under combined Nazi and Communist influence. The city is almost paralysed and serious disturbances have developed. Crowds have damaged the few trams which are running. \ Scenes reminiscent of London in the 192fi general strike marked Berlin suburbanites' expedients to reach business in an amazing assortment of old motors that were plying for hire. The strike means a boom for taxis, of which 10,000 were recently on half-time owing to the depression. These were all instantly in full commission, and are being allowed to ply for unlimited hours.