GREAT SOCIALIST DEMONSTRATION.
EXCITEMENT IN BERLIN.
CROWD CHARGED BY MOUNTED GENDARMERY.
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) iPeb Peess -Association.! BERLIN, March 7. On the understanding that Socialists intended to carry out a franchise demonstration at Trcptow (a south-eastern suburb of Berlin), a party of Berlin police assembled there to prevent it. The Socialist newspaper Vocrwarts, however, announced that a franchise promenade would take place instead. While a few Socialists kept the police at Trcptow busy, between fifty thousand and a hundred thousand marched to the Tiergarten (the popular pleasure-ground of the Berlineso). The niob sang the. "Marseillaise," and then proceeded to unfurl the revolutionary ensign on the steps of the Reichstag. The crowd became desperate, and mounted police charged up the stepe. A section of the Socialists marched to Trcptow P,ark and tried to break through the cordon of police. Mounted gendarmery immediately charged the crowd, the mounted men discharging cirbines and the police using revolvers and eabrcs. Twonty-five of the demonstrators were wounded. Twenty-eight thousand troops are now confined in barracks in case of emergencies.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9159, 8 March 1910, Page 5
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174GREAT SOCIALIST DEMONSTRATION. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9159, 8 March 1910, Page 5
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