Only 37 Per Cent Favour Dissolution
Received Monday, 9.5 p.m. BERLIN, Aug. 10 The final figures show that out of 26,500,000 possible votes, only 37 per cent favoured the Nationalist referendum for a dissolution of the Prussian Diet.
Tho rioting in Berlin is well in hand and the police are now making a house to house search in the neighbourhood of the Bulow Pl&tz for armed Communists. General Relief in Germany Received Monday, 8.10 p.m BERLIN, Aug 10 There is general relief in Germany at the news that the referendum had failed. It was felt that if it succeeded, foreign confidence in German stability would be shaken and the country plunged into chaos.
Specially Trained Red Fighting Corps POLICE IN CONTROL Received Monday, 9.50 p.m. BERLIN, Aug. 10. The police believe the outbreaks arc the work of a specially trained streetfighting corps of Communists. The police have been ordered to lire at any open windows. They cleared the Buelow Platz by midnight and stood guard, with a Red Cross detachment behind them and searchlights playing on the approaches to the square.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6625, 11 August 1931, Page 7
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