RATHENAU MEMORIAL
UNVEILING CAUSES BIOT. Pieaa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, June 25. Serious street fighting occurred in Eilslebeu (Saxony) between Nationalists and Communists on the occasion of the unveiling of a memorial to Dr Rathenau. Two persons were killed, and 25 seriously injured.—A. and N.Z. Cable. Dr Walter Rathenau, German Foreign Minister, was assassinated near his home at Grunewald suburb (Berlin) on June 24 of last year, the outrage having been carefully planned by Monarchist plotters. A grenade blew off his left leg, and he died in the arms of a housemaid who ran out on hearing the shots fired.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18899, 27 June 1923, Page 7
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