MARTIAL LAW IN PORTIONS OF GERMANY.
SERIOUS RIOTING REPORTED FROM LEIPSIC. & CZECH SOLDIERS FIRE UPON THE CROWD. BERNE. JUNE 27. Serious rioting was reported from Leipsic last week-end. Eight hundred shops, chiefly those of bakers, butchers, and provision dealers, were pillaged. Czech soldiers brought from Austria fired into the crowd. Martial law has been proclaimed in Leipsic and in the Duchy of Brunswick. The soldiers of the duchy are not permitted / to return to their homes, lest they be infected by the popular discontent.
Severe hailstorms have seriously damaged the corn and hay in Hungary, and also the crops in Thuringia.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16268, 29 June 1916, Page 7
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101MARTIAL LAW IN PORTIONS OF GERMANY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16268, 29 June 1916, Page 7
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