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Show I01SPE0PLE ID SOLDIERSJ CLASH j Zaberri, Alsace, Germany, in Foment; Streets Cleared at jj Point of Bayonet ZABERN, Alsace, Germany, Nov. 29. jj Scores of towusnooplo Including bov- eral civilian officials, were under nrrest i hero today as tho rosult of a night ol' rioting The disturbances wero bo vio- W lout at tlrnofl that tho German troops VI cleared tho main atreotM at tho point of bavonets. . , . 9 Tho demonutrationB wero dosigned to Ej express tho indignation of tho townB- SJ neoplo at certain insulting remarks re- a ccntly made by German army offlcors. The townspeople, oxcitcd by tho ro- gjj Drofisive moasures of tho military, gath- m ?n tho Drincipal aqnnre. Soon al' torward an officer with a party of fifty Boldiers appeared on tho Bceno. Tho ofllcor orcfeVod his men to load their rlilcH and tho front rank to kneel. When the detachment was ready to lire tho ofllcor stepped forward and comraandod the crow to disperse. Tho pooplo at onco scattorcd but tho aoldiors pursued Sm at doublo-qulck nnd proddod thoin with their bayonots and tho butts of thoir rifles. Sovoral oxtizona wore In- Jl,DotachmentB of troops with fixed bayonets patrolled the streets through-3 through-3 tho night and coutinuod on duty to- da'rho mavor criticised tho action of the military authorities. "l" b0om6 as though Colonel ron Pouter, thn enmnmndor of tho Ninoty-ninth Ninoty-ninth regiment, has proclaimed martial lavr in Zaborn ou hi own initiative," uaid the mayor. Forty persono Tvoro urTCslod. Tho' aro confined in tho military barracks. It is understood tJiov aro to ho tried by a military court and not by a civil tribunal. tri-bunal. Lieutenant Baron von Torslnor, whose romarlcB started tho troublo between be-tween the army and tho citizens, wont shoppinc yesterday in the town accompanied accom-panied iy four fioldiers, who guarded tho ontranccs of tho storoa while he w.'us inBido, A nutiiber oC young lieutenants of tho Ninofy-niuth infantry v.-cro soon today linrsuiug with drawn swords a youth who had ehoutod an insulting epithet jd, a man who wua Binging tho Gorman national anthem. |