Hamburg:
Rioting again breaks out, despite a heavy and
armed police presence, when the unemployed and many communists ignore police
orders not to demonstrate. Police,
sometimes failing to distinguish demonstrators from other citizens, wade into
numerous gatherings, often roughing up peaceful bystanders. Eventually they open fire on some of the
rioters. The worst fighting takes place
in front of a new building where the demonstrators try to force the workers
there to lay down their tools in a sympathy strike. Twenty more people are arrested (in addition
to yesterday’s total), and the entire police force is ordered to a state of
emergency. By nightfall, police issue a
statement saying they have the situation under control.
Berlin:
Meanwhile the entire police force here is also
ordered to emergency duty in anticipation of communist agitation. Communists have announced plans, in defiance
of an order from the Prussian Ministry of the Interior against such
gatherings, for several
groups to gather in various parts of the city, then converge on a central
meeting place. Police warn that they
will fire on demonstrators if necessary.
And all of this is
intensified by the news that 76 people, including several Reichstag members,
have been arrested at a secret communist meeting said to be plotting a coup attempt in
Germany for Feb. 1. The riots were supposedly
a prelude to the larger plot.
Paris:
The uproar is growing over what is thought to be a brazen
daylight kidnapping of Alexander Koutiepoff, former general of the White
Russian forces.
A second witness emerges claiming to have seen Koutiepoff abducted, and conservative French
newspapers are calling for France to break diplomatic relations with the Soviet
Union over the episode. Koutiepoff’s
wife is quoted as saying, “It is the Bolsheviks! I know it!
I know those people!”
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