BEDLAM LOOSE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 290, 8 December 1932, Page 7

BEDLAM LOOSE.

BATTLE IN REICH. BITTER OUTBURSTS. Vigorous Fighting, and Verbal Attack on Hindenburg. SESSION ADJOURNED. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 12 noon.) BERLIN, December 7. Amid yells of "Down with Hindenburg!" Nazis and Communists exchanged volleys with ashtrays, telephone receivers, spittoons and inkpots in the Reichstag to-day, when the Communist attack on President von Hindenburg loosed bedlam. Uniformed Nazis hurled themselves at a spectator who had joined in the fray on the stairs leading to the public galleries, throwing a table which smashed a candelabra and injured several people. The session was temporarily adjourned. The brawl was the result of a terrible explosion at the Prcmnitz dyeworks, in which seven were killed, being made the pretext for an anti-capitalist outburst. Later the attack switched to President Hindenburg, . whom the Communists described as responsible for the Versailles Treaty. The battle ended with the Communists, being driven by superior numbers into their own lobby. A number of combatants were cut and bruised, but the worst sufferers were the public officials who, with arms outstretched, sought to separate the brawlers.