Raided

Berlin police requested permission from the Presidents of the Reichstag and the Prussian Landtag (Prussian Parliament) to search the rooms in the buildings that had been set aside for the use of Communist Deputies.

The police declared that they had in their possession 80 bundles of documents incriminating Communists and they informed the Presidents of the names of several Reds who were suspected of being concerned in murder plots

Both Presidents waived the immunity of their members. Defending his action in the Prussian Landtag, President Leinert declared amid Communist jeers: "Immunity is always to be defended unless thereby the general welfare is jeopardized. But as I will not protect murderers, I permitted the police to make the search."

The police carried out their raids and discovered a caps for hand grenades, ammunition for Mauser revolvers and the revolvers for the ammunition, besides many damning revolutionary documents.

Dr. Severing, Prussian Minister of the Interior, said in the Landtag to the accompaniment of Communist hisses and other sibilant sounds: " The Communist acts hurt the workers most of all. "Bah!" quantity of percussion yelled the Bolsheviks, "The workers are going to break your neck!"