New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-01
AMERICAN ASKS REDRESS
Assault on Newspaper Man Laid
Before Berlin Foreign Office.
Won JAGOW WILL NOT ACT
Chief of Police Treats Attack
Lightly-English Correspond
ents Want Satisfaction.

rerIin Sent 3o.-David Jayne HE, the
American Ambassador acting on fnstruc-
tions from the State Department at wash
ington. called at the Foreign Office to-
dav and requested an inquiry and proper
official redress for the wanton assault
made by the police on Frederick w "he'
the correspondent of The New YORK
Times" in the coal strikers rioting last
Sunday night.
Herr Won Jagow. chief of the Berlin po-
lice, in answering the complaint ana APP
neal for redress from the khghSh anu
American Journalists, declined 10 TAKE
action against the officers who MADE the
attack. He said that the correspondents
acted courageously, but violated the po-
lice regulations in entering rlotouS
crowd Herr Won Jagow added that ne
had convinced himself from personal OBJ
servation that all the policemen acted Win
praiseworthy energy and cooiheadedness
during the riots He expressed deep regret,
however for the trouble with the news
paper men.
Mr.. Seymour, Charge d'Affaires of the
British Embassy. on behalf of the EnSllsh
newspaper men attacked, also has LOGGED
a protest with the Foreign Office and de-
manded a thorough inquiry.
Not a sword was drawn or a revolver
fired in the strike in the Moabit district
this evening Although the crowds were
larger than they had been since the strike
started. the police had q smaller force or
men on duty The authorities to-day
searched houses in the district for fire
arms ard found many. The strictest pre-
cautions are being taken for tomorrow
AS Saturday is payday, the saloons have
been ordered closed ct 3:45 O'Clock in the
afternoon, before the workmen leave the
factories.
Mr. Seymour and Ambassador Hill con-
ferred on the matter this afternoon. 1t IS
assumed that the Foreign Office will act
promptly. Herr Won Jagow, president OF
the Berlin police, appears to take cyni-
cal view Of the affair. Nevertheless, 1t is
plain that the correspondents were at
tackled ruthlessly. While one of the four
called out that they were representatives
of the press, another held up in plain
view of their assailants a police pass,
showing that their presence on the scene
was authorized.
The only explanation that Won Jagow has
offered is that the police acted on the
order Of some unknown bystander. sort
of Captain Coepenick." Captain Coe-
penick,' or properly William Noigt, was a
German shoemaker who was deported from
New York last spring after the author1-
ties had discovered his record of ten years
in Jail. Four years ago Noigt, pretending
10 be a captain of the Grenadiers of the
Guard, picked up a squad Of German sol
diers and, leading them into Coepenlck,
stole 8, 900 from the town hall.
In company with the correspondents OF
the Reuter- Telegram Company. The New
York World" and The New York Sun,
Mr.. Vile, engaged in his duties. was
watching the police and rioters from
motor car. when the newspaper men were
set on by the police and painfully injured
Seemingly without provocation, the police
charged with sabres, and the newssather-
ers were saved from further INJURY only
by a flight to the nearest first ala STATION