HOME RULE ROW
A LSATIAN DONNY BROOK. LONDON. August- 25. Colmar, the capital of Upper Alsace, provides no exception to the principle licit the advocacy of Hume Rule on- . tails broken heads, says the Paris cor , respondent of the Times. Nationalists, objecting to a meeting j of the Ileimatsbund. which is agitating , for autonomy for Alsace-Lorraine, fore- ( stalled the home rulers' occupancy of a meeting hall, and engaged the lleimatsbund on arrival in a pitched battle. ( which was a creditable .imitation ofj Ronnybrook. Whirling bludgeons and bottles, the Nationalists carried off the honors. They hashed in the hat and smacked the face s of Hr. Richlin, the founder'of tho Hei- | matsbund, the members of which the 1 police rescued. ' After 90 minutes' tumult, the police closed the hall, whereupon the Nationalists formed into ranks and marched i through the town singing the “Marseil t laise.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17132, 7 September 1926, Page 3
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