GERMAN FARMS RAIDED

Evening Star, Issue 20959, 25 November 1931, Page 9

GERMAN FARMS RAIDED

CROWDS OF UNEMPLOYED Crowds of unemployed men and theff families were recently raiding the farms and orchards of Westphalia, Germany, in search of potatoes, fruit, and anything else that is eatable. The presence of women and children made it difficult for the authorities to deal with them. At Salve-one of the orchard raiders and a forester were shot and severely wounded. Police were called out to drive off 100 men, women, and children who were clearing a potato field at Recklinghausen. Sixteen men wore arrested. The raiders got nearly half a ton of potatoes. An unemployed man rushed into the cashier’s room of the Municipal Bank of Meissen, Saxony, seized a bag containing £SO, shot an official through the hand, and ran out to a motor cycle. Passers-by overpowered him and handed him over to the police. Court bailiffs took possession of practically the whole of Holzheim, a Prussian village with a population of about' 2,000. They seized houses, furniture,land, horses, cattle,- and pigs. The trouole followed the crash of the local Co-operative Savings and Credit Bank, of which nearly all the villagers—mostly peasant farmers and factory workers—were members.