BERLIN RIOTS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10573, 30 September 1910, Page 4

BERLIN RIOTS.

NEWSPAPER:; CORRESPONDENTS [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Peii Press Association.) Received September 30, at 0.35 a.m. Berlin, September 29. While Mr Wile (the Daily Mail correspondent), Mr Tower (Daily News), Dr Shaw (New York Sun), and MiLawrence (Renter's correspondent) were motoring' through the Turmstrasse -n pursuance 'of ai police lieutenant's assurance that there was no objection, :they; stopped "the motor-car to watch the' police driving the people through the open space. They called at the Klein. Tiergarten. 'Half a dozen policemen, after driving acouple of young girls through the bushes, returned" to tlie pavement, a detective immediatelv ordering,.them to attack ; the car, and they ruthlessly slashed the occupants with sharpened sabres. Wile received a nasty blow on the head with the flat of a sword; Shaw , was -struck heavily : . on (the arm and face, but the blow was broken by thfr car; Tower was struck, and bruised, and , Lawrence was. struck repeatedly over the right arm and shoulder; '. Both hands were cut, the tendon being hud bare.

; The scene- was brilliantly lighted with tramcars passing and .there wore no crowds, the' only "occupants of the pave-: me-ut being the. police and chaufieur. Tlte : party "might have been hospitaled. The Telegraph correspondent was bidden to take his departure, and he says that "the. police desire a monopoly of •reporting the matter. ■Many thousands of factory hands .gatheredat Moabit, but the authorities restricted access to the riot area to vesir dents. Thcv closet! the taverns. The police are provided- with flares. ■ The rioters were driven to the inmost recesses of the Moabit district. The people arc yielding, cursing and throwtug stones, whereupon sabres are wielded so vigorously that the wounded strew both sides'of the street; others are ridden down. Twenty have been conveyed to the Moabit Hospital. One rioter has died from a fractured skull, and a policeman succumbed to knife wounds. Received September 29. at 10.111 a.m. Berlin. September 29. ;'. Two hundred and seventy-tbreo were wounded in the Moabit quarter on Wednesday. Received September 30, at 8.0 a.m. Berlin, September 29. Troops are held in readiness in the vicinity of Moabit. The authorities fear to summon them lest the army's intervention lead to an upheaval n other cities. ' An official .statement at police headquarters savs that this is an extremely ■serious- afl'-iir. IV is revolution ill miniature. The riots are carefully phuiued, and simultaneous -outbreaks occur at different points. Signals are given bv moans, of loud whistles anu the fact thai the Marseillaise is sung simultaneous!,: at- widely di Me rein places reveals system and organisation.