Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-04
POLICE CONTROL
BERLIN RIOT AREA
ri Are Known Dead as Probe
of Soviet Completely Gets
Under Way.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, May 4.-Berlin police were
investigating today charges of bor-
ough newspaper that a Russian Com
munist leader, aided by three members
Of the Soviet army general staff, had
led the German Communists in riotjng
of the last three days
The police were in complete charge
of Neukoelln and Wedding districts,
where 81 persons have been killed and
more than $50 injured in fighting since
May day. "A state of siege probably Will
be maintained in the affected districts
until Monday, although disturbances
today seemed on the wane.
Among the dead was an English
newspaper man, Charles Frau Mackay,
representing the Waitara Daily News of
New Zealand. Police on Hermanstrasse
shot him dead before dawn today when
he refused to go back indoors in de-
fiance of their orders permitting no
one outside.
Uprising Planned, Paper Charges.
Mackay spoke no German and his
friends assumed he did not understand
the commands, which were shouted at
him three times before the shots which
killed him were fired. The police point
ed out that they had forbidden news
paper men to enter the disturbed area
after 9 pm.
"a do kyy
newspaper, the Neue zeit of Chariot
tenburg were that the Soviet Com
munist organizer Manielski arrived in
Berlin IA days ago, accompanied by
three widely known Tcheka organizers
and three members of the Red army
general staff.
The paper said the delegation i'm
mediately began work on detailed plans
for uprisings.
An official police report said 10 per-
sons had been killed in the rioting-the
list of casualties not including two 9TH
ers known to be dead. There were So
listed as seriously injured, with some
expected to die. Several hundred suf-
fered minor injuries.
OF 200 arrested since May day about
200 have been held for infraction of the
connmunity's peace and probably will be
committed for trial.
More Workers Join Strike.
Another 1,450 workers today Joined
the ranks of strikers who yesterday
walked out In sympathy with the Com
mun1sts in their battle with the police.
or these 800 were laborers on the
Neukoelln subway construction gangs.
$50 were employees of a street car rails
plant and 400 shoe factory workers.
The police estimated the total number
OF strikers yesterday at 5000.
F1ght1ng was renewed early last night,
but vigorous action by the constabulary
repealed the workers, and the hours lust
before dawn were spent in comparative
quiet.
The police completely turned the
tables on the Communists who We'd
neSday and Thursday night barricaded
themselves in HermanStrasse, Neugoelln,
ana defended their Notifications both
from behind the barricades and with
effective sniping from windows.
Last night and today it was the DO
lice who held the barricades and
manned the house fronts. their machine
guns poking ugly noses from dozens of
temporary baStionS to serve if further
emergency should arise. The WITH
draWal of the Communists during
Thursday night gave the constabulary
It's chance and occupation was thorough
and immediate.
Barbfd Wire Fences Area.
Barbed wire fences were erected
around the affected Hermanstrasse and
side street areas SO that police were
enabled to control the coming and 60
ing of every person within the siege
area. Not SO stringent precautions were
adopted in the Wedding district
Police, realizing the bitterness of the
population toward the measure adopted
to quiet the area, made an honest effort
TO be courteous to those not suspected
OF implication in the uprising, and
guided those arriving at Hermanstrasse
after dark to their homes.
Police today continued thorough
searching of houses on HermannStrasse
and its side streets, ferreting out the
last nests Of the rioters. Arrests were
being made almost continually.
The area was open to street cars and
ordinary traffic within limits, the DO
lice dispensing groups and keeping pc
destr1anS moving. TradeSmen. however.
complained bitterly that they had lost
much business since the residents of the
district made timid by the carnage of
the last three days, preferred to shop
outside the affected area.