UPROAR IN DIET.
INSULTS HURLED AT GERMAN ROYALTY. By Cable —Preas Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable association. BERLIN, October 12. When the Holierizollern Settlement Bill was read a second time in the Prussian Diet the Communists called the Hohenzollerns a gang of criminals. The Diet was a dog, fetching what they ordered. One insulting interjeotor was excluded. The othercs hurled missiles at the democrat, Herr Fnlok. Tho Communists caused an uproar and two more wore ejected, and the noisy galleries wero cleared. The Communist Gnspnr mounted tho Speaker’s desk and hurled objects at tho Nationalists. ITo was forcibly carried out and the sitting was suspended. When it was re-opened, the President announced that he intended the energetic "suppression of disorder. Dr. Falk declared that there was ho reason to fear the ex-Kaiser’s return, which the law safeguarding the Republic rendered impossible. Wild scenes occurred in the evening, and the debate was concluded under police protection. The Communists broke up the sitting five times, bombarding their opponents with ink wells, books, tables and chairs.
The vice-president of the Diet (Dr.' Garnisch) was hit by an Ink well, and bespattered from head to foot, and was also Injured. The police arrested ten Communists, whom Dr. Garnisch ls prosecuting. /
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 14 October 1926, Page 7
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206UPROAR IN DIET. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 14 October 1926, Page 7
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