Sunday, July 27, 1930

Germany:

Chemnitz: Communists attack a hall where nazis are meeting, injuring three nazis and the police commissioner of the town.

 

Berlin: Communists, nazis and police battle in the streets in several parts of the city, with 100 communists arrested.  Meanwhile, new economic reports show unemployment among laborers increased by 16,000 over the first half of July, and continued depression in the cotton industry -- nearly 1 in 6 spindles in the Rhenish cotton district are idle.  Total unemployment is now at 2.7 million, up 125% from a year ago.

Paris:  Police arrest 61 Spanish anarchists and other agitators on the banks of the River Seine near the suburb of Villeneuve-Saint Georges.  They are holding a meeting of an organization known as The Federation of the Spanish Tongue, reportedly discussing ways to stir up unrest in Spain.  Five of the arrested turn out to be people already expelled from France, and police seize a large quantity of anarchist literature. 

Saturday, July 26, 1930

Bucharest:  A reporter traveling through the region of Bukovina reports that even the Jews there admit the recent anti-Semitic unrest has been partly fueled by the Depression.  The government has arrested leaders of the agitation, including members of the fascist Iron Guard, but the Jews still live in fear.  Government sources claim communists are also involved in the unrest. 

Berlin: As they said they would, Chancellor Heinrich Bruening and President Paul von Hindenburg, operating under the emergency powers article of the German constitution, promulgate by decree the financial reform measures that the Reichstag wouldn’t approve.  The package calls for cutting $40 million in spending from the budget and raising income taxes 5% (10% for unmarried men).  It also calls for the federal government to stop funding the deficit between what cities pay in unemployment benefits and what they can afford to pay.