Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-03-05
A BREAD RIOT IN BERLIN
Famished Germans Make a Raid
on the Shops.
The Troops on Duty With Fixed Bayoncts
THE Authorities Claim That the
Uprising Is the Work of schem-
ing Anarchists.

the city claim to be in possession of in
formation to the effect that the dem
onstration of Thurday before the en-
peror's castle was not, as at first sup
posed, a spontaneous and unpremedi-
tated movement. They claim that it
was a carefully planned outbreak and
that it would have assumed very much
more important propositions had it not
been for the fact that the people did
mo- rise to any degree in support of the
anarchists and socialists who engin-
eered the riots.
This of course is the official version
of the affair, but it is doubtful if it is
correct.
However, there is no doubt that the
authorities had secret information of
some kind and that there is more truth
in the story that the anarchists had
planned to use dynamite upon the
castle than at first supposed.
The entire force of troops composing
the garrison of Berlin was kept under
arms until 1870 this morning, and even
then they were lot allowed to rest.
A Midnight Bread Riot.
Shortly after IL o'clock last night
there was another small riot, making
the third of such disturbances of the
peace since Thursday afternoon. At
about that hour a number of isolated
groups Of excited men, some Of them
pretty well loaded down with beer,
focused In the northern districts until
a gathering of about 800 was formed,
and began listening to an address from
n socialist leader. The latter had
hardly uttered a few bui ming re-
marks condemning the brutal conduct
Of the authorities, etc, when he was
interrupted by the singing of the
'Marseillaise." and cries of bread
Give bread or the chance to earn it,
Down with the capitalists Burn
down their houses!'
Then one of the mob was hoisted
above the heads of his comrades, and,
sitting upon their shoulders, loudly
cried:
"There Is Bread. Take It,"
Let us take bread il the emperor
will not give 1t to us there" pointing
to a neighboring bakers store, There
is bread, take it"
With n roar like that of a pack of
hungry tigers the mob made q rush for
the bakery. broke in the entire front OF
the store and cleared it of its contents
in about the time it takes to write IL,
but the supply of bread was only suf-
ficient to relieve the hunger of a small
portion of the crowd so u number of
other bakeries, grocery stores and wine
shops were broken into and emptied of
their contents. Two butcher shops
were also looted before a force of
police strong enough to quell the riot
was summoned to the scene.
Scattered by the Police.
When the police did appear, the mob
evidently more full of hunger than of
fight, scattered in all directions and
left the police in possession of the dis
mantled stores.
The emperor remained watching
from the windows of the castle Schloss,
surrounded by several generals and
half a dozen aide-de-camps until half
an hour after midnight, when he dis
LhtosSu va otuii icSSlNihR ItDOTtS
by orderlies from all the military and
police districts. Previous to retiring
for the night, the emperor dismissed
the Alexander regiment of guards,
which had been on duty throughout
the day with fixed bayonets. Troops,
however, are being kept within easy
call.
The Dispatches Doctered.
The fact was made clear today that
the press censor Of Berlin has been
busy at work since Thursday altering
and changing the tenor of riot dis
patches sen out of Germany. So much
SO that a number Of newspaper CORE
spondents, the representatives of the
London Times for instance, have been
informed from their home offices that
their dispatches were In some cases al
most illegible as they had left whole
sentences out and that their messages
had breaks in them which made their
stories disconnected. In view of this
fact it may be explained lhat the cor
respondent of the United Press antici-
pating some such an action upon the
part of the press censor caused his first
dispatch announcing the riots.
which was twelve hours ahead
of any other dispatch sent
to the United States to be fled at a
certain place outside of Berlin, thus
completely outwitting the press censor.