VANDALS AT WORK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20656, 30 August 1930, Page 18

VANDALS AT WORK.

GERMAN MOB RULE.

POLICE ANP THEIR TASK,

The mob at Trier, Germany, on July 9 was in a state of such excitement that the police had been supplied with rifles and a, store of tear-gas bombs had been prepared for use at polico headquarters. The Trier authorities telegraphed to ■Berlin for police reinforcements to aid in p the trouble the local force being worn out with constantly patrolling the streets during the last few days. The energetic measures taken prevented anything worse than the breaking of a few windows in the centre of the town. .The police had to charge several times to clear the streets. While they were thus engaged a house in the outskirts belonging to a cigar merchant who is away from home was broken into and sacked. His offence, curiously erough, was not any leaning to separatism, but apparentlysevere treatment of recruits during the ■war when he was a sergeant in the Imperial Army. The culprits had alreadyvanished when the police appeared on the

scene. I The police authorities received many requests daily, from citizens of tho town accused, often quite, wrongly, of having shown a leaning toward separatism. In' an official communique the police president of Trier stated that it was not possible to make any arrests, since members of the public /''who filled the streets until a late hour of the night were so foolish as to lend assistance to the culprits," who are described as "in every respect immature." "Ihese conditions," the communique continued, "cannot lie tolerated and the police will use all available resources to stamp out such vandalism." The local organ of the National-Social-ist Party quite openly printed recommendations to < ontinue the work of revenge.

Ihe attempt, of French and German clubs to advance the cause of Franco-German rapprochement by arranging water polo matches led to a very regrettable incident at Zeitz in .Saxonv for which the National-Socialists are responsible. The local National-Socialist press had conducted a violent campaign against inviting French .swimmers to Germany. After the match the ears of Hitlerites were offended by hearing members of the /French team using their own language in the streets and even daring to appear in public in the company of German girls. The Frenchmen were insulted in the

streets arid a group of roughs gathered. The attempt of a Zeitz fellow-sports-jmari to mediate resulted in bis receiving several knife wounds in the melee which followed. M. Cuvellier, one of the Frenchmen, was accused of delivering them, and, jri spite of his denials, condemned by a Police Court magistrate to four months' •imprisonment, largely on the ground that his knife was found on the spot. He has been released under bail and has appealed.

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