MOB RULE.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8200, 28 June 1919, Page 3

MOB RULE.

RIOTS IN HAMBURG AND BERLIN. MARTIAL LAW. (Electric Telegraph.—Copyright). LONDON, June 25. There is a great outbreak of lawlessness in Berlin. It follows on demonstrations for and against the treaty. Armed mobs plundered many shops, robbed pedestrians and attacked soldiers and police. All night long there was shooting in the streets. There were serious disturbances in Mannheim. The shops and houses were plundered. The troops resisted the attempts of the rioters to enter the barracks, using grenades. Thirty were seriously injured and two hundred arrests made. Owing to Spartacist riots at Cassel martial law was proclaimed. An attempt to storm the prison was unsuccessful, but the food warehouses were seized. Firearms were freely used, with a number of casualties. COPENHAGEN, June 26. The riots at Hamburg culminated in Spartacist attacks on the central railway station and the police stations, which the Spartacists secured after a midnight coup. The fire brigades hosed the crowds and prevented repeated attempts to fire the Stock Exchange. Troops cleared the streets and the town was declared in a state of siege. The Government is hurrying up reinforcements. There are the wildest demonstrations in Berlin with plundering of shops and robbing of wayfarers. Bands of robbers held up trams and trains, robbing passengers and even taking the rings from the women’s fingers.—(A. & N.Z.)