Petits Carmes.**? 5 étrangers, 34 Belge 

Wolff’s right eye is so injured it will hardly regain sight. 

Sunday February 27, between 10 and 11 o’clock in the evening. 

Real maltreatment in the Hotel de Ville, blows with the fist from 
all directions. The real maltreatment first in the police station where 
there were a number of drunken gardes civiques. Police punched 
Wolff in the right eye so that the sight.... 

They tore off his glasses, spat in his face, kicked him, punched 
him, abused him, etc. One of the gardes civiques prcved his valour 
by joining in these manifestations. They tortured him. 

In the meantime Hody arrived, chef de la streté publique, 
notorious philanthropist, hypocritical scoundrel. 

Wolff had an interview of <1) 1/, [hours] with him in the 
presence of the scoundrel who had arrested him amidst frightful 
maltreatment. 

Hody’s indignation at Wolff’s visiting him. Spoke furiously against 
the German Workérs’ Society. “I knew,” he said among other 
things, “that there would be about 2/, Germans among those arrested 
tonight.” Wolff said ironically: “Oui, insofar as they were already 
marked in advance for arrest.” 

Taken from the Permanence to the Amigo. Wolff [..?.] t. 
evening [...?...] 

The whole thing that evening was a provocation organised by the 
police. The Ministry needed prisoners at any cost, including also 
Germans. 


* See this volume, pp. 567-68.— Ed. 


&o* 


582. Notes on the Arrest, Maltreatment and Expulsion of Wilhelm Wolff 


At the Amigo: soon more arrested persons arrived: those who were 
placed with Wolff: a Belgian. He was so maltreated and injured by 
the police that he lost at least a quart of blood. A third person see 

ae 
3 On Monday etc. taken to the Petits Carmes. 

On Wednesday the 6 arrested foreigners received their expulsion 
passports. But Wolff’s was dated Sunday, February 27, before his 
arrest. In prison horribly maltreated.