GERMANY

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 128, 2 June 1920, Page 5

GERMANY

■J3UOTOUS ELECTION CAMPAIGN

DEPUTY BRUTALLY ILL-

TREATED

['PrEGH ABBOOIATIOW.I

•lu-ai/rqjiaa a^«J N.Z. Cable Association

(Received June 2, 10.15 a.m.) BERLIN, June 1

Tlie election campaign is being 1. characterised by much rioting in various centres. Yon Graefe, a weliknown Conservative Deputy, was brutally ill-treatei"t at a meeting at Mecklenburg, where the tension is ■ exceptionally great. •' Several landowners and their families have fled to Berlin.

- It is reported that the agricultural Laborites are plotting to expel the landlords and divide their estates.

The Government has, promulgated ran edict forbidding private.- enlistment in ti military corps, the penalty I'being five years' imprisonment.. \