The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-02
PERILOUS DAY IN PRAGUE.
RIOTOUS MOBS RESIST MILITARY
AND POLICE.

Mob StOrming a Cartridge Factory.
Houses and Stores Looted and the
Torch Applied to a House at Zizb-
kOVv.
Prague, Dec. 1.-There was a renewal
of the rioting here last evening The
windows of the German theater, German
schools, restaurants and newspaper offices
were broken. Troops cleared the streets
Many people were injured and a number
of arrests were made.
The houses of Germans were bombarded
with stones, and a howling mob which
gathered on Wanzel platz had to be dis
persed 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 a mob threatening to run riot
there
During the afternoon the riots increased.
The synagogue windows were smashed,
as were also the windows of the houses
of Jews displaying German trade signs in
several streets of the Jewish quarter.
Since o'clock this evening the streets
have been held by twelve battalOns of in
fantry and a squadron of Hussars.
All traffic is suspended and the shops
and business houses are closed.
In spite of the military large Czech
mob made a descent during the evening
upon the German quarter and plundered
houses and shops in several streets,
The furniture of a well known German
cafe was piled UP in the street and set on
fire. When a detachment of troops ap-
preached to disperse the rioters the SOL
diers were greeted with showers of
stones broken glass and other missiles.
The officer in command ordered his troops
10 prepare to fire but at the urgent re-
quest of a police official the order was not
carried into effect
Shortly after o'clock a mob attempted
to storm cartridge factory at Zizhkow, a
suburb of Prague. The troops stationed
at the factory poured a voley into the
crowd. 1t is known that at least two per-
sons were killed outright and it is feared
others were killed or wounded. The same
body of rioters set fire TO a house at
Zizhkow, but the flames were soon quell-
ed
In various other parts of the city and
the suburbs windows were smashed and
German sign boards demolished.
1t is said the mob was melted by the ar
ticleS in the Czech newspapers, and by
false report that the German students had
organized an attack upon the Czech ma
tional theater.
At a late hour threatening crowds made
repeated rushes and attempts to storm the
German newspaper Office but by II o ocock
the town was quiet and the troops had
been withdrawn, except patrols at threat
ened points.
At Smychow, the southwest suburb of
Prague, a thickly populated Industrial
quarter at a late hour in the evening a
riotous mob attacked and plundered the
German national school, The rioters fired
shots at a police detachment whereupon
the commanding officer, acting with great
promptitude, drew his revolver and fired
at one of the ringleaders, the bullet pierre
tng his arm. He then arrested the man
Inc result of this
dispersal of the mob without much further
difficulty.
The German gymnasium, in the AL
staedter-Ring, in the center of the city
was plundered by mob, which was final
ly dispersed by a combined charge of SOL
diers and police.
Already resenting the German jubila-
TONS and illuminations of clubs and beer
halls over the fail of. Count Badeni, the
Czech population was still further melted
by the speech of the Czech burgomaster
Gil
Two special sufferers from the riots are
Baron Won ,Aehrenthal, a representative
OF the German land owners in the Reichs-
rath, and Count Won Salm. Baron Won
Aehrenthars palace is on the Wenscheis-
platz. The mob smashed the windows and
took out the window frames on the ground
floor last night. Similar outrages were
committed at Count Won Salm's palace
which is the editorial office of the German
paper Bohemia
During the night the Aehrenthal naIaca
was boarded up, but the rioters soon re-
moved the planks and threw large stones
into the luxuriously furnished rooms
smashing valuable objects of art and cost
ly furniture Damage to the extent of
many thousands of forms has been done
to German firms, clubs and other institu-
tions having German proprietors or pa
irons. No performance was given at the
German theater tonight.
The constant cry of the rioters was
Down with the Germans" Down with
the Jews" Ladies Yenturing on the
streets Were obliged to wear the Slav tri-
color in order to avoid being attacked.
German signs are being hastily removed
by. their owners and replaced with Czech
Inscriptions. Nobody dares to utter a
word in German.
The Khinsky palace was plundered of its
furniture, which was thrown through the
windows, heaped in the street and then
set on fire, tile mob preventing the fire
brigade from approaching.
The Wenschelplatz, the scene of the
revolution of 1863 has been the center
or the excitement. Ii is about sixty yards
In width and $50 yards in length and will
hold 100000 people.
The police and the military have made
2O0 arrests and it is said tonight that
altogether 80 persons have been injured
Prague, Dec. 2, a. mat the United
States consulate the American flag was
hoisted.
1t is stated the riots were organized
by a secet society animated by hatred Of
Germans and Jews
Shortly before midnight there were fresh
disorders and two shops in the Pingman-
strasse were broken open and pillaged
The military patrol was dispersed by the
plunderers. Disorders are reported in va
rious other suburbs.
At Weinberg the rioters sprnkled shop
with petroleum and set it on fire.
AL Lieben twenty-one armed rioters were
arrested. Another gang pundered liquor
saloon and shortly afterward the patrol
found twenty persons lying drunk in the
street.
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