BERLIN RIOTS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19612, 7 May 1929, Page 11

BERLIN RIOTS.

+- jffiW ZEALANDER'S DEATH. ACCIDENTALLY SHOT BY POLICEMAN. MMD P*"*» ASSOCIATION' VT KLBCTHIC » W " TULEdHAI'EI COPTBICHT.) LONDON, May o. Th« Berlin correspondent of the lieHwg" Teh-graph News Agency says llrtt the police state that Charles Maek,v the New Zealand journalist, was *Zi accidentally. A policeman says ff , dndiiiK Mackny in an area which .«.' declared to be in a state of siege, k, .ordered him to put. up his h.iuds. if«*kav held up one hand, and it is J,ow eeajectured that he attempted to Lndo.ce h'» idi-ntity papers with the Lksr I>M< ! - rnforttuiately the polico'Z. thought that MaeUy was going to 1 , revolver and fired immcdiate.y. Prior to the nli.-.tiiiK ot \laeka> , theBerlin correspondent of the "Daily TsleP»P n " commented on the fact that «h 6 casualties did not appear to be ' mon g the Communists, whom the police J,,,, \.ppoacd '".'": H npi .rc«ii.g On th»wnt«ry, the victims included three «yt»w». two o '' wh " m vvmi known »ersly'*<> l,e cngU'cd in house-clcan- **»' m/m w" 5 kil; °'' ,v!li,f ' 8 oi "*? to •itrk «»«! a Socialist was killed, who IrelV appeared at a window and waved t the P*»" B « '" sl,ow that h<i s-vl,ll'a-tlised with their actions. Another I!u« bullet killed a middle .aged war ELle, who was waiting in a door- !*• »r * favourable opportunity to St » jug <* '•""'• Australian Press r(*srl«» E- Mackay, formerly of ffagsntii ami latterly assistant roriSdent at Berlin for the, "Daily was found seriously wounded foa Berlin street, where police clashes yjtJt Communists • 1B(1 occurred, and 4«d on the way to hospital.] MANY CASUALTIES. fOUCB METHODS CRITICISED. feftfSß r»K»« ASSOCIATION BY BI.ECTKIC tsi.si»»ap«—corraioHT.)

BERLIN, May 5.

fhootlng has ce.iaed. The casualties (ttal 88 dead and .100 wounded —05 senility—which gives an idea of the state ft ttnilon prevailing. The police report tlit, apart from Mackay's dqnth, a rot§f«i«itfttiv« of a Berlin newspaper, |M» wounded in the leg. The newspapers severely criticise the police methods, demanding that a strict Squiry be held. It is pointed out that aot one policeman figures * n th « 23 The police are still holding two district*. The centre of the trouble is in • itete of siege, and these streets are •at off from the rest of Berlin with Jitbitd wire barricades. The Communists' attempts to preciIlUte • general strike have utterly Press Association.