RIOTING IN MEMEL
Clash Between Germans And Lithuanians
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received July 7, 7.5 p.m.)
Rugby, July 6.
Tlie Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, stated in the House of Commons that the British Charge d’Affaires in Kovno, who had just returned from a visit to Memel, reported that somewhat serious rioting occurred at the port on June 20 and 28, when a demonstration by German Memelanders on the arrival of German steamers was followed by clashes between them and Lithuanians, resulting on the latter occasion in the death of one Lithuanian and the wounding of others by the autonomous police. “The Charge d’Affaires is satisfied that both the Lithuanian and the autonomous authorities are alive to the necessity of preventing a recurrence of such incidents as took place, and that the position will now return to normal,” Mr. Butler added.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 241, 8 July 1938, Page 11
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