PRUSSIAN COMMUNISTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20255, 15 May 1929, Page 13

PRUSSIAN COMMUNISTS.

SCENE IN THE DIET.

ATTACK ON A MINISTER. MAY DAY RECRIMINATIONS. Times Cable. LONDON, May 13. The Berlin correspondent of the Times says tlio Communist members of the Prussian Diet greeted Herr Grzesinski, Minister of the Interior, with shouts of: "Murderer of the Workers" and "Bloodhound," when lie entered the House to day. This occurred prior to a debato on a non-confidence motion moved by the Communists in connection with the May Day disturbances. The Communists declared that the Socialists' tears of (heir competition had caused the prohibition of demonstrations and the proscription of the lied fighting front organisation. Tliey accused (he Chief of Police, Herr Zorgiebel, of having been responsible for the bloodshed. The Communists made objectionable interjections and pandemonium followed upon calls to order. The demonstrators ignored Herr Grzesinski and howled down Herr Braun, the President, when ho ordered a Communist, Herr Jandrcdski, who was shouting, "The Ilcd Front Forever," to sit down. The President thereupon suspended the sitting, and Herr Jandrcdski made his exit, repeating his battle cry. When the sitting was resumed the President suspended him for 20 days. The sitting was again suspended twice until Herr Grzesinski had completed his remarks. 110 asserted that deliberate attacks upon the police could not bo handled with kid gloves. Prussian and German police treated journalists much more mildly than did the police abroad, said the Minister. The no-confidence motion was lost. Three times the Communists shouted "The Red Front" amid derisive laughter from the remainder of the members.