COMMUNISTS' VIOLENCE.
. V • T . r...- /A'•-\V •V. RIOTING. IN GERMANY. ■ ENCOUNTERS .WITH POLICE. ; SEVERAL PEOPLE -KILLED. LUDENDORFF'S PAGEANT. By Telegraph Press Association—Copyright. /•' ' (Received 10.35 p.m.) " : A. arid N.Z. BERLIN, May 12. Communists and the police came into conflict at Halle, where General Lu'dendorff had planned the biggest Imperial pageant since the Armistice, to celebrate the unveiling of the restored Von Molkte ' monument. - Officers and men, numbering 250,000, headed by bands, marched past the statue. The officers included 22 generals, (admirals Von Tirpitz and Scheer, and also Prince Oscar. : The Communists organised a counterdemonstration, as a result of which at least six of the police were killed and an unknown number of Communists were wounded. . ' Another Communist demonstration took, placs at the Berlin , racecourse, where there were numerous collisions between the Nationalists and the police before ' tihe latter broke up the meeting. The Communists then seized a brewery and fired revolvers indiscriminately until armoured cars arrived on the scene. The police then stormed the brewery, killing four of the Communists and making hundreds of arrests.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18707, 13 May 1924, Page 9
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