SHOTS IN CINEMA

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 66, 15 September 1941, Page 7

SHOTS IN CINEMA

NAZI TROOPS FIRE

ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATION IN BERLIN

EUROPEAN UNREST

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.)

LONDON, September 13,

An anti-war demonstration in a Berlin cinema, in which storm troops fired, killing and wounding a number of the audience, is reported from the German frontier.

The audience, during the showing of a particularly gruesome picture, shouted: "We do not want war pictures! We do not want war!"

The film was stopped and the lights were turned on, and the police gave a warning against further demonstrations, after which the showing was resumed. Shouts were ' again heard. The doors suddenly opened and S.S. men walked in and firing was heard.

The Oslo radio reports that more Norwegian trad" union leaders and journalists have been given sentences ranging from death to 15 years' imprisonment. The death sentences have been commuted on condition that there are no further incidents.

Official sources in Vichy describe the continued bloody incidents in France as "a real Communist conspiracy, the danger of which nobody should under-estimate."

The authorities are struggling to maintain order in the occupied and unoccupied zones. * A thousand persons were arrested at La Rochelle during raids on cafes and restaurants. The German military governor of Paris announced that the holders of unauthorised firearms are liable to execution.

Marshal Petain has commuted the death sentences imposed on the two alleged. Communists at Clermont Ferrand.