RIOTING IN GERMANY.
MUCH STREET FIGHTING. PUBLIC IN STATE OF TERROR. (Received August 12. 8.15 p.m.) BERLIN. August 12. Street fighting has been resumed by the Communists, one of whom was critically wounded by a policeman who was sniping from a. housetop. A threat to murder the police commander was painted on the roadway at W eissensee.
Revolver shots which were tired during a torchlight procession at Cologne started serious rioting, in which I lie Communists engaged, necessitating police intervention. The police fired high, in order to scatter the rioters, sonic of whom replied with revolvers.
The casualties arc not yet known, but are believed to be heavy. Many arrests were made, but, the firing continues.
The public is in a stale of terror, but the police say the situation this morning is in hand.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20950, 13 August 1931, Page 11
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