“MARTIAL LAW” IN GERMANY
ANTI-RED PRECAUTIONS. A minor “state of siege a kind of martial law—under which all forms of public demonstrations were to rank as rioting and will be punishable as such, was declared for the Christmas holiday at Bernau, an outer suburb of Berlin. The cause of this extraordinary measure was the determination of the Communists to collect their followers at Bernau from all the surrounding country for a great anti-religious and anti-Christ-mas demonstration. The gathering was forbidden, but the “ Reds 77 apparently intended to defy the prohibition. As the local police was quite inadequate to deal with organised Communist recalcitrance. a strong force was sent to the town from Potsdam.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21264, 19 February 1931, Page 15
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