FIGHT IN REICHSTAG

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 9, 8 December 1932, Page 8

FIGHT IN REICHSTAG

3.15 P.M. EDITION

CONFLICT BETWEEN PARTIES. NAZIS AND COMMUNISTS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received December 8, 12.45 p.m. BERLIN, Dec. 7. Amid yells of-" Down with. Hindenburg," Nazis and Communists exchanged volleys of ash trays, telephone receivers, spittoons and ink pots in the Reichstag when a Communist attack on President Hindenburg loosed Bedlam. Uniformed Nazis hurled themselves at the spectators, who joined in the fray, on the stairs leading to the public gali lories, hurling a table, which smashed a candelabra. Several were injured. The session was temporarily adjourned. OFFICIALS WORST- SUFFERERS. Received December 8, 1.10 p.m. BERLIN, Dec. 7. The brawl in the Reichstag was the result of a terrible explosion in the premnitz dyeworks, killing seven, being made the pretext for an anti-capi-talist outburst. Uater the attack switched to President Hindenburg whom the Communists described as responsible for the [ Versailles Treaty. I The battle ended with the Coin- ' nmnists being driven by superior numI hers into their own lobby. A number I of the contestants were cut and bruised, but the worst sufferers' were the . public officials who, with arms out- | stretched, sought to separate the I brawlers.