BAVARIAN BRUTALITY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18341, 6 March 1923, Page 7

BAVARIAN BRUTALITY.

BRITISHERS ASSAULTED. OFFICER'S WIFE ROBBED. LONDON. Feb. -24. An Australian, accompanying a British officer and his wife to a concert in aid of the Ruhr unemployed, he!d at the hotel at which the officer was staying, in I Garmisch-Partenkirschen, a Bavarian ' ■winter sports resort, had an unpleasant! experience. i ♦v> 6 British visitors had been invited to ' e ., concert, and had accepted and sub- j 10 unemployed fund. u \ lhe Were paving their bill the ' orchestra struck up "Deutschland, Über i , es ", Not half a dozen bars were , J-ltr 8 ' visitors had no time to 1 Is ? what . was happening, before a I crowd , ? excited Germans hustled them | .. m 6 table, angrily demanding whv i they were no standing while the 1 urn! * nthe n> was being played. j l out waiting for an explanation ! or apology, the officers wife was dragged to the ground her n-cklace torn off, and her neck badly bruifed. Her pocketbook which had been on the (able be-! fore the disturbance, and which con- \ tained a considerable sum, disappeared 1 *nd was not recovered. The Australian, proceeding to his | home, which was m .- distance from the j hotel was fo. lowed by an angry crowd, which attacked him, inflicting nasty ] wounds on the head. Early next morning (he police asked the British visitors to leave the hotel at once, and the. management refused to J serve them with breakfast before they left. The attack has been reported to the British Consul at Munich.