BERLIN TURMOIL

Northern Advocate, 7 November 1932, Page 5

BERLIN TURMOIL

| DEFIANT STRIKERS I TRANSPORT DISRUPTION. BARRICADES ERECTED. SUMMARY SHOOTING ORDER. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received 9 a.m.) BERLIN, November 6. : v The tramways and bus services, wered. at a standstill again yesterday. - Thethreat of dismissal caused only- -2,500 - of the 2-1,000 employees to resume, work. As a result only the barest skeleton of a service was run. In some places strikers removed rails. ■Crowds of cyclists, shouting abuse, accompanied vehicles which it was at-: tempted to run. Many windows were, broken. Escorting police hemmed in." the stone-throwing crow T d and fired,' killing two and seriously wounding' others, including two women. Under a broadcast threat that any one interfering with traffic would be shot, this morning, 'was marked by no disorders. Plying squads of armed police are patrolling the city, in parts of which strikers have filled the. tram: rails with cement and have erected barricades. ' ' ‘ ' A few trams are running, but buses • and tube railways are idle. 7 7 Two more Communist newspapers! have been suppressed. ■ : y The city dustmen have joined the. strikers. The gas workers are taking! a ballot on a proposal to cease woik. The police raided a suburban house and arrested 50 alleged Communists; including strike leaders. Nazis "storm troops". gathered round a pool of blood left on a pavement when the police killed a Nazis customs officer. They dipped a flag in the blood. Nazis who wore escorting Herr. Hit,-, lor to an election meeting in the Rhineland cleared his path through . the crowd with heavy whips, A girl who was struck in the face is suing one of the Nazis party.

MINOR SKIRMISHES,

AERIAL SURVEILLANCE. VIOLENT CLASHES ELSEWHERE.’ (Received Noon.) BERLIN, November 6.; The Nazis and Communist .alliance in the transport strike secured ; com* parative electoral peace, and there-was heavy polling in Berlin. There were only a few minor skirmishes. Fifty arrests were made for obstruction. Every .policeman available was on duty, while aeroplanes were incessantly overhead to warn tho authorities of impending danger.' ■ There -were numerous disturbances elsewhere. Nazis shot with revolvers five Communists at Chemnitz. ; There were 23 arrests at Bremen in a’ Uom-munist-Nazis . clash, in which ' three Nazis wore seriously injured There were riots and several people were injured at Brunswick, Oldenburg, Misburg and Crefeld.