ATTACK ON NAZIS
LITHUANIAN SAILORS HOSES TURNED ON CROWD STREET RIOTING FOLLOWS LONDON, June 29 Lithuanian sailors at the port of Memel turned hoses on 7000 German Nazis assembled to greet the arrival of a new German ship. The resulting riot and street-fighting caused the death of a boy and injuries to 50 people. The Germans were singing Nazi songs and shouting, "Heil Hitler!" when tho Lithuanian sailors turned the water on them. For two hours afterward there was fighting in the streets of the city until police fired warning shots and succeeded in closing tho streets. Nazis broke the windows of the Synagogue and of several Luthuanian public buildings. Memel, a Baltic port detached from Germany under the Versailles Treaty, has local authority under Lithuania. Periodically it flares up as Europe s danger spot. It is included in the areas affected by Herr Hitler's plan for the unification of tho German people. There are 100,000 Germans in Lithuania.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23082, 6 July 1938, Page 13
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