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Show SCORES HURT IN LEIPSIC RIOTS PROTEST AGAINST RUHR OCCUPATION OCCU-PATION BECOMES BLOODY FIGHT Police Are Assailed With Knives, Blackjacks and Stones When They Attempt to Quell Strife Berlin. Seven persons were killed and more than one hundred wounded in Wednesday's disorders at Leipsic, it is announced in special despatches. The dead include one policeman, the head watchman, while there are fifteen fif-teen policemen among the wounded, thirty-seven of whom are in a serious condition. The demonstration was in protest against tite Kuhr occupation and the insufficiency of the unemployment doles. Some twenty thousand persms, it is said, took part. The demonstrators gathered under the auspices of the trades unionists and the Socialists in five huge assemblies as-semblies in the center of the town. The demonstration was the climax of several in the last two days. Toward the close of these rather-ings, rather-ings, it is stated, crowds of the youthful, unruly elements, suspected of including some communists began stirring up provocative agitation In the neighboring streets against the police and the trade union leaders, who were preserving order. |