Sunday, August 24, 1930

Berlin:  Communists demonstrating for their party in the upcoming parliamentary elections launch attacks on nazis, police, and even innocent bystanders, in various parts of the city.  Using bottles, chairs, table legs and beer steins, the communists fire projectiles seemingly at random targets.  In the East End, they close a street and hold up cars and pedestrians for “contributions” to the communist party.  100 communists and 41 nazis are arrested, and two policemen are injured. 

Meanwhile, the Foreign Office issues a statement that it does not intend to raise the German-Polish border at the upcoming League of Nations meetings, scheduled to start next month in Geneva.  The French press had raised the issue, claiming a speech given by Minister of Occupied Territories Gotfried Treviranus last week had been a prelude to a German initiative to seek revision of the border.