The Portland daily press., 1897-12-02
RACE RIOTS In PRAGUE.
Cz:ch Hob Descend Upon German
Quarters.
TROOPS GREETED WITH SHOWER
OF STONES AND MISSILES.

stopped by Troops Who Fired Into the
Mob-Rioters Fire on the Police In
Suburb.
Prague, December 1.-There were fresh
disturbances here today. The houses oc-
cupied by Germans were bombarded with
stones and bowling mob which gathered
on Wanzel platz mad to be dispersed by
infantry and cavalry. The university
buildings are threatened by the rioters
and have to be protected by large bodies
of police. Troops have been drafted to
Judenstadt owing to the mob threatening
to run riot there.
During the afternoon the riots in
| creased. The synagogue windows
were smashed as We're the windows OF the
houses OF Jews displaying German trade
signs in several streets of the Jewish
quarters.
Since six O. CLOCK this evening the streets
have been held by twelve battalions Of
infantry and a squadron of huzzars. All
traffic is suspended and the shops and
business houses are closed.
In spite of the military large Czech
| mob made descent during the evening up
| on the German quarter and plunuered
| houses anu SHOPS al several strceUS. L Ht
| MIXTURE of q well known German cafe
was piled up in the street and set on tire.
| When detachment of troops approached
| to disperse the rioters the soldiers were
greeted with showers OF stones, broken
glass and other missiles. The officer in
| command ordered his troops to prepare to
| fire, but at the request OF police officer
| the order was not carried into enect.
| Shortly after nine o'clock a mob at
tempted to storm cartridge factory at
Zizhkow, surburb of Prague on the
other side of the Moldau. The troops
| stationed at the factory poured a volley
| into the crowd. 1t is known that at least
two persons were killed outright and it is
| feared that others We're killed and
wounded. The same body of rioters set
fire to another house but the flames were
soon oTlenched. In various other parts of
the city and suburbs windows were
smashed and German sign boards de-
molished. 1t is said that the mob was in
cited by articles in the Czech newspapers
and by false report that the German
students had organized an attack upon
the Czech National theatre.
At "a late hour tn. ca ing wds mad
repeated rushes and attenlpis t. ~-..
the German newspaper offices huu y
eleven O'Clock the town was quiet ana
the troops had been withdrawn except
patrols at the threatened points.
Prague and a thickly populated Industrial
quarter at a late hour in the evening a
mob attacked and plundered the German
National school. The rioters fired shots
at the police detachment which arrived
on the scene to d1sperse them, whereupon
| the commanding officer drew his revolver
and fired at one of the ringicaders, the
bullet piercing his arm. He then arrested
the man and the result of this energetic
action was the dispersal of the mob, with
out much further difficulty.
The German gymnasium in the Alt
stador- Ring, in the centre of the city was
plundered by q mob which was finally
dispersed by a charge of soldiers and
police.
Already resenting the German jubila-
tions and illuminations on clubs and
beer halls over the fall of Count Badeni,
the Czech population was still further in
censed by the speech of the Czech burgo-
master delivered Monday night TO the
town council
Two special sufferers from the riots are
Baron Won Aehrenthal a representative
of the German land owners in the Reich
stag and Count Won Salm. The formers s
palace is on the Wenzelsh- -Platz. The mo-
smashed the windows and tore out the
window frames on the ground floor last
night. Similar outrages were committed
at Count Won Salm s palace, which is the
6u1tOFlal OlllC6 OI Uu6 OtrulGH paDGr
Bohemia.
During the night the Aehrenthal
palace was boarded up, but the rioters
soon removed the planks and threw large
stones into the luxuriously furnished
rooms, smashing valuable objects of art
and costly furniture. Damage to the
amount of many thousands of florins has
other institutions having German pro-
prietors or patrons. No performance was
given at the German theatre tonight.
The constant cry of the rioters was
"down with the Germans;'' Down with
the jews"
Ladies venturing on the street were OBJ
liged to wear the Slav rricolor in order to
avoid being attacked. German sign
boards are being hastily removed by their
owners and replaced with Czech inscrip-
tions. Nobody dares to utter n word in
German.
| The Kinsky palace was pllndered of it's
| furniture, which was thrown through the
windows, heaped in the streets and set on
fire. the mob preventing the fire brigades
from approaching.
| The Wenzels- Platz, where the reyolu-
tion of 1913 began, has been the chief
| centre of excitement. 1t is about sixty
yards in width and $50 yards in length
and will hold hundred thousand people
The police and the military have made
| TWO hun(reQ arrests anu III lS reported TO-
night that altogether eighty persons have
been injured.
| At the United States consulate the
American flag was hoisted. 1t is said
that the rioters were organized by Sc
cret society, animated by hatred OF Ger
| mans and Jews.
| Shortly before midnight there were
| fresh disorders, two shops in the Ping
mangasse were broken open and pillaged.
The military patrol were dispersed by
the plunderers. Disorders are reported in
various other suburbs. At Weinburg the
rioters sprinkled shop with petroleum
and set it on fire. AT Lieben q armed
rioters were arrested.
Another gang plundered liquor
saloon and shortly afterward the patrol
found 20 lying drunk in t.s streets.
CITY UNDER MARTHA y LAW.
Prague, December las u results OF
| the riots and disorders of the last "a
hours, the authorities have proclaimed
the city under martial law. Che chief
of police, who is Czech, was discovered
encouraging rioters and mas been sus4
pended from Office. 1t is BOW known
that the number of injured Germans