BITTER GERMANS

Taranaki Daily News, 12 March 1920, Page 5

BITTER GERMANS

ALLIED OFFICERS ATTACKED. PEASANTS SHOOT -AIRMEN, By Telegraph.—Preis AMn.«-CoJyr!ght. Received March 12,12.10 a.m. Berlin, March 10. Savage assaults on Entente representatives continue to excite the country. Eight French flying officers, members o£ an aviation mission, were attacked at VVernitz, near Potsdam, by a mob of peasants armed with hayforks and soma firearms. The peasants accused them of poaching, and summoned them to surrender. Four obeyed, but others tried to escape. One was killed, two were wounded, and a fourth escaped. The Foreign Office is enquiring into the matter.

A crowd assaulted a British chauffeur attached to a boundary commission near Posen because he photographed the William the First statue. Prince Joachim and Colonel von Platen have been lodged in prison as a result of the Adlon Hotel incident.

The commander at Bremen has appealed to Entente officers not to wear uniform.

Three Allied officers of high rank, members of a military mission, were assaulted by a large crowd in the streets of Bremen. An enquiry has opened.—Times Service.

THE BERLIN ESCAPADES. AN APOLOGY FROM GERMANY. Received March 11, 10.20 p.m. Paris, March 10. The German Charge d'Affaires has apologised to M. Millerand for the Berlin hotel incidents—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Berlin,, March, 8. Prince Joachim attempted to re-enter the Adlon restaurant. The manager said that the waiters and cooks, who resented Joachim's monarchist activities, annonnoed that they would strike if he were allowed to enter. Joachim departed after indulging in bad language It appears that a Prince Hohen!one participated in the disturbance, and took off his shoe and belabored a Frenchman.

Socialist newspapers angrily denounce the drunken rowdies, saying that the people will he obliged to pay for their escapades. Even the Conservative Press deplores the regrettable exhibition. It transpires that on an earlier occasion Prince Joachim tried to hurl a heavy candlestick at a maimed British officer for refusing to stand during "Deutschland Über Alles," but a companion prevented him—Aus.-Ni!. Cable Assn.