STRIKE RIOTS IN GERMANY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12748, 27 April 1912, Page 3 (Supplement)

STRIKE RIOTS IN GERMANY.

'.- * <m* " — = — _--•>'■■■ MINERS SHOT AND SABRED. Fresh and move violent excesses have taken place m the Westphalian coal strike district, Avhere 210,C00 miners, or three-fifths of the total number, are noAv idle. A "battle" Avith fusillades, of revolver shots on both sides Avas fought last night near Hamborn. Non-striking miners who were being. escorted to their homes by a detachment of police Avere attacked Avith stones. Simultaneously volleys of shots rang out from the AvindoAvs of houses along the roadvvay, which was thronged Avith angry strikers. The police dreAV tlieir sabres and charged the mob, sending the rioters running m all directions, many of them Avith bleeding heads. While the riot Avas at its height the strikers knocked down* the street' lamps and ignited tho 'escaping gas. Shopkeepers barricaded their' -premises i ', After several conflicts Avith the strikers : tlie police contrived to restore ord-i*'.' '•'*' '/A iTumber of policemen,; incladinjj"t\VoOfficers, were hit on the hea.d' ;t Ayith stones, aiid are .suffering severe : . v l .'/' Similar disorders , took, place , early today 1 at H&rne, -ivhe^e 'a" 'sqfiiad ' (St 'police was attacked.by a_, fean^, of vybung rnihefs Avith . -revolvers. .,- /pie/ captairi'.'bf '^he police . ordered his men to .return the fire, and one of the assailants, a lad of seventeen, fell dead . ,shot m the head. Others were seriously AA'ounded. Minor riots have occurred throughout the district, despite the appeals of the' strike leaders to the men to "keep your hands m your. pockets yoyiymQuths sUjjt,," A' Gdyern'ment •'c^mmUnio{ue "issued tonight says* that U* tli-Uojp; authbrities find it impossible" to' stffegu'aid 'the v pußlic peace with, the aid oi ; t)ie police they are *to "makd''thn\*?ly* a requisition for military, assstanoe," ' V imm^mmmmmaammaammm