BERLIN CITY COUNCIL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21196, 29 November 1930, Page 13

BERLIN CITY COUNCIL

FINANCES BADLY MUDDLED. COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED. (United Pres* Association.) i (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) - BERLIN, November 27. .. Because the City Council is obstructing all attempts at interference and refused to pass the 1930 Budget, the Governor, Herr Brandenburg, appointed two State commissioners to regulate 1 Berlin’s muddled finances. - Berlin is. at present indebted to the extent of £5,000,000. The commissioners will, declare and supervise the collection of the per capita tax .of 10 per cent, the tax" on beer and spirits, and an additional property tax. Similar steps are contemplated in other towns. READING OP THE DECREE. PANDEMONIUM BREAKS OUT. ' ■ ~ BERLIN, ■ November 28. (Received Nov. 28, at 6.5 p.m.) When the Speaker of the City Council road the Governor’s decree pandemonium broke out. A Communist'member, while the Speaker repeatedly called for order, read a violent protest full of insinuations against the Government, demanding that the citizens should -refuse to pay all municipal taxation. The police, at the v Speaker’s order, ejected all the Communists, and thereupon the Nationalists marched out en masse.' The unemployed broke in and erected- barricades with chairs- and tables, which the police stormed, overpowering, truncheoning, and ejecting the disturbers., Five of the police were injured.