CITY RIOTS AND SOME OF THEIR SEQUELS

Warfare in large cities always has original aspects, depending on such varied factors as city architecture, the race and its mode of fighting and, in the so-called more civilized countries, the efficient and prompt aid the survivors receive. During the three riots in Calcutta in 1926, 141 persons were killed, but of 511 wounds in 124 bodies only nineteen were due to bullets, so general was the use of stabbing and cutting weapons.¹ When investigations of the injuries caused by the recent riots in Berlin are published, it will be interesting to see how the conditions there compared with those of the Vienna communistic uprisings in 1919 and 1927. It is remarkably advantageous that Meixner,² who described the peculiarities of the wounds of the first Vienna street fighting, should provide with Werkgartner³ the experiences gained from studying the wounds of the second insurrection, which took place in