Rough Riots

In Berlin and in Vienna last week Fascist rioting at last crept from proletariat to fashionable quarters, terrorized tourists on the boulevards, respected not even the immunity of foreign diplomats sipping champagne in Vienna's smart International Country Club.

In Berlin 500 Fascist students, enraged by the closing of their university for two days in hopes of preventing riots there, swarmed down Unter den Linden roaring "Germany Awake!" and brandishing sticks and stilettos. The United Press, which has its office at No. 17 Unter den Linden, estimated that "a score of persons were beaten and one stabbed" before police dispersed the rioters.

In Vienna the socialite International Country Club was raided by rollicking young Fascists who toppled over tables, smashed crockery & chairs, attacked the guests with clubs fashioned of broken furniture. Raining blows upon one Walter A. Baldwin of Boston they bruised him severely. Aristocratic Dr. Caius Brediceanu, Minister to Austria of the Kingdom of Rumania, was kicked from behind, rolled over & over down the terrace steps. Even women were smacked in the face and elsewhere by the young Fascists until suddenly the Club secretary appeared, pistol in hand, cool.

"Get out!" he ordered. "Get out or I'll shoot!" Cowed, the Fascists got.

In clashes throughout Germany between Fascists, Communists and the police three persons were killed last week, 42 injured.

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