Show HUN OPERA STIRS STIRS' ANGRY VETERANS TO VIOLENCE Mau Mounted Police Charge Crowd Bc Bent t on Silencing Silencing Silencing ing T euton Music NEW rEW YORK Oct Mounted 21 21 Mounted last night charged a 8 crowd of ot pol police ce service men who had massed In front of the Lexington theatre to prevent prevent prevent pre pre- vent production of ot German opera upon which Mayor Hylan Rylan had placed an official ban Dispersed by the police the service servicemen men hastened to Times Square re recruited recruited recruited re- re nearly 1000 civilians and re returned returned re- re turned turned to the theatre One section of the line engaged in a fight tight with the police laying down a barrage of bricks and stones SHOTS ARE FIRED In the melee several shots were fired tired but whether by police or the Indignant service men could not b be determined Scores of ot windows w were e smashed by stones and on one marine eon suffered a fracture Of ot was the hip A block of ot cement was hurled from the roof root of ot a building opposite the theatre It struck the mudguard d of ot ofa ota ofa a passing automobile and rolled to the sidewalk almost striking two po police PO-I PO lice Inspectors Detectives o ordered d to the roof root arrested Jose Joseph Smith a sailor from the U U. S. S S S. Imperator on ona ona I a n. charge of at disorderly c conduct A Afew I few tew minutes later a a. mounted policeman policeman police police- man was struck in the face tace by a a. billiard bUllard ball OPERA CONDEMNED I. I Various posts of at the American le legion legion le- le gion glon had passed resolutions condemning condemn condemn- ing Introduction of ot German opera Representatives of ot the Manhattan naval post waited on Mayor Hy Hylan Rylan an with a petition that the performance be stopped The mayor issued an or order order or- or der prohibiting the performance but the sale of ot tickets continued Hundreds of at soldiers sailors and marines gathered In front of ot the theatre and when the doors opened they raised a II howl of ot derision and anger Then with an American flag at Its head a long column of ot uniformed 1 men swung down the street At their I I Iwas appearance a call for police reserves was sent In The service men were led by a marine wearing a Croix de do deGuerre Guerre A few minutes minutes' after atter the curtain had been raised and the tho strains of ot German music sifted out through the doors the veterans pressed forward only to be driven back and temporarily dispersed by lIy mounted police On learning that directors of ot the Star Opera company Intended to give the performance regardless of ot his order order or- or der the mayor maor issued a n. statement in which he said that he had directed the police not to interfere with the opera until I could obtain the tie ad adVice advice advice ad- ad vice of ot the corporation counsel to the I end I may proceed legally |