VIOLENCE IN RHINELAND
RIOTING BY SEPARATISTS HOUSES AND SHOPS SACKED VENGEANCE UPON WOMEN By Telegraph—Press Ansi).—Copyright. Berlin, July 6. Further savage attacks on separatists have occurred at Wiesbaden. The police once ha’d to charge the mob with drawn sabres, but they were unable to prevent the sacking of shops and houses A tobacconist and his son were beaten nearly to death, and vengeance was wreaked on girls and women who had associated with the French. One was badly mauled and her clothes reduced to tatters.
Mainz is now quiet, but the police had to draw a cordon round the centre of the town and stop traffic in order to cheek the wreckers and looters.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 July 1930, Page 9
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