THE GERMAN SABRE.
FALLS HEAVILY ON SOCIALISTS. FRANCHISE RIOTS, FIRE miS USED—2S WOUNDED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrlen.. (Rec. March 7, 11.30 p.m.) Berlin, March 7. ' On the understanding that the Socialists intended to make a franohise demonstration at Treptow, a party of Berlin police assembled to prevent it. The Socialist newspaper, "Vorwarts," however, announced that a franchise promenade would take place instead. While a few people kept the police at Treptow busy, between 50,000 and 100,000 marched to Tiergarten, sang the "Marseillaise," and unfurled the revolutionary ensign on the steps of the Reichstag. The: crowd became desperate when mounted police charged up the steps. A section of them marched to Treptow Pari: and tried to break the cordon of police. The mounted gendarmerie immediately charged, discharging their carbines, while the police used their revolvers and sabres. Twenty-five demonstrators were wounded, Twenty-eight thousand troops are confined to barracks in case of emergency.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 760, 8 March 1910, Page 5
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150THE GERMAN SABRE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 760, 8 March 1910, Page 5
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