7 JANUARY 1911, Page 9

The extraordinary nature of these disturbances has naturally attracted the

greatest attention both at home and abroad. The German comments have been especially interesting, and the Lokalanzeiger gives a statement, apparently from an official source, as to what the Berlin police would have done in a similar case, saying (with some justice, it must be con. fessed) that "the proceedings of the London police may be compared to shooting sparrows with artillery." The German papers, however, deal chiefly with the question of what the Lokalan,zeiger calls "the infatuated right of asylum," which they almost unanimously condemn. The Radical Berliner Tageblatt, however, takes the other view, and reminds its readers that in 1848 many Germans took advantage of the privileges which that right gives to political offenders.