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Show ' hu1SpIiS HERR NEURING IS SLAIN BY SOLDIERS SOL-DIERS TO WHO IV. HE HAD, REFUSED HEARINGS. Cabinet Minister is Dragged from Office Of-fice by Members of Mob, Thrown Into River and Shot When He Attempted to Escape. Copenhagen. lierr Neuring, war minister In the government of Saxony, was killed at Dresden Saturday by disgruntled soldiers to whom the minister min-ister had refused a hearing. The war ministry was stormed by demonstrators, demonstra-tors, who dragged out Uerr Neuring and threw him into the Elbe, where he was shot and killed as he tried to swim to the bank. Wounded patients in the Dresden ' hospitals, says the Dresden dispatch, collected In the morning in the theatre square to protest against an order by Herr Neuring to the effect that the mounded in future should receive only peace-time pay. Five' or six hundred hun-dred men formed a procession to the war ministry and sent a deputation to see the minister, who refused, however, how-ever, to receive them. Upon this, the crowd, Incited by communistic speakers, stormed the entrance en-trance to the building. The sentries were overpowered and government troops declared they would not attack the crowd and marched off after surrendering sur-rendering their arms. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the demonstrators had forced their way into the main building, followed the war minister to the upper story, where he had fled, and dragged him out into the street. After the minister had been severely maltreated by the crowd, he was hurled from the bridge into the river. When he tried to swim to the bank, the demonstrators fired at him and within a few moments he disappeared under the water. |
