DISTURBANCES IN RERUN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17371, 19 January 1920, Page 5

DISTURBANCES IN RERUN.

ATTACK ON THE REICHSTAG.

THE POLICE USE BOMBS,

INDISCRIMINATE t FIRING.^: By Telecraph— Allocation— Copyrieht. ■-.- ---V (Received 6,6 p.m.)"';;.:! ■*;\'--'-\\ Reuicr. -' > ' ' ' BERLIN. Jan. 14. .'„ Semi-official reports state that the attack ,on . the Reichstag , yesterday opened by the . crowd rushing 'and disarming the police. Reinforcements held the crowd back for.some time but the attacks were persisted! in until the police were 'compelled- | +•- ihrow bombs. "A panic followed ■ temg which indiscriminate firing i t'-.ok »'ii,!3, 1 many people being shot jncii " ditsH, s including women, l tfftmpied to death. ~'.:.'.', !.,, I Prior to the outbreak the demonsi traiovs ami' a deputation to the AslieiribJy, % hero Ihcyt were received by die ladepefidfa?-. leaders who pro- ! remC- to -jyJ'-mi? + Mi. demands to' i*K?i &<?¥eni'.3fcßt. Tto sound -i j gfUAbiy, mA &$ *ttcep«a4en(* rose Urci? 'ih-sU sta4* xhovtihsg "Murt'der&rt.'"' Th? siitjie? '■am suspended.

FORTY FATAUraS! OCCUR. STMT*: 0" 9IS&E PROCLAIMED. Ai':S>* ! :« *.;(S S.S. Cable Association. ;>««, i.5 ;■ i.O BERLIN, Jan. 15. T'v, j-iOs* %.ires show that 40 ?wr-t-'s* *&t* killed and over 100 wounded in Tuesday's fighting. : i%e demonstrators molested Depu-ij-.?i on their way to the Reichstag. Traffic was stopped in the principal street. A state of siege has been proclaimed over the greater part of Germany. Railway communication with Holland is interrupted. Tho Vorwarts claims that the Government is in no way to blame for the bloodshed, and save the police did not fire on the crowd until 10 of their members had been carried away wounded.