RIOTING IN BERLIN

Evening Star, Issue 20614, 14 October 1930, Page 12

RIOTING IN BERLIN

SERIOUS DEVELOPMENTS FEELING AGAINST JEWS RUNS HIGH Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. BERLIN, October j 3. (Received October 14, at 2 p.m.) Reports indicate that the rioting in one of Berlin’s chief shopping centres was the most serious of all the incidentj. A mob which driven back from the Reichstag broke up into organised groups, numbering from twenty to 200 They streamed a lout the streets shouting: “ Down witli the Jews!” Big general stores owned by VVerthciiu and Tietz, with enormous frontages, were attacked. The windows were smashed, and the damage would have been more extensive, had not; other shopkeepers hurriedly shuttered their windows and extinguished the lights. Motor cars wore also attacked, and the windows broken. A largo force of police, which was withdrawn from the Reichstag, charged the mob, cleared the streets, and made scores of arrests.