Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-02
MORE FATAL RI0TING.
Much Disorder in the Bohemian
Capital.
ANTI GERMAN DEMONSTRATIONS.
Czech MObs Attack Schools, Restaurants,
and Newspaper Offices.
THE CITY UNDER MARTIAL LAW.
THE CITY UNDER MARTIAL LAW
Disturbances Assume Almost the
Proportions of Revolution
Palaces Plundered-PeOple DO Not
Dare Even TO spenk German
Troops Fire on Rioters.

turants, and newspaper offices were
broken. The troops cleared the streets
Many people were injured and a mum
Der of arrests were made. During tn,
afternoon the riots increased. The syna
gogue windows were smashed as vel
as the windows Of the houses Of Jews
displaying German trade signs, in seve-
raj streets of the Jewish quarter.
Since o'clock this evening the streets
have been held by twelve battalions OF
infantry and squadron of hussars
All traffic is suspended, and the shops
and buslness-houses are closed.
In spite of the military, however. n
large Czech mob made a descent during
the evening upon the German quarter,
and plundered houses and shops in seve-
| raj streets. The furniture of a we'll
| known German was piled up in the street
and set on fire. When a detachment Of
troops attempted to disperse the rioters
| the soldiers were greeted with showers
OF stones, broken glass, and other mis-
siles. The officer in command or
dered his troops to prepare to fire, but
at the urgent request of a police official
| the order was not carried out.
TWO PERSONS KILLED.
Shortly after 9 o'clock a mob attempt
ed to storm cartridge-factory at zizh-
kow, suburb of Prague. The troops
stationed at the factory poured a volley
into the crowd. 1t is known that at
least two persons were killed outright
and 1t is feared that others were killed
or wounded. The same body Of rioters
set fire to house at Zizhkow, but the
flames were soon quenched.
In various other parts of the city and
suburbs windows were smashed and Ger
man signboards demolished Ii is un-
derstood that the mob was melted by
articles in the Czech newspapers, and
by false report that the German stu
dents had organized an attack upon the
Czech National Theatre.
At a late hour threatening crowds
made repeated rushes and attempts to
storm the German newspaper Offices. but
by IL O'Clock the town was quiet, and
the troops had been withdrawn, except
for patrols at threatened points.
MOB-LEADER SHOT.
In Smychow, southwest suburb Of
Prague. and q thickly-pOpulated indus
trial quarter. at a late hour this evening,
a mob attacked aid plundered the Ger
man National School. The rioters fired
shots at the police detachment, which
arrived on the scene TO disperse them,
whereupon the commanding officer. act
ing with great promptitude, drew his re-
volver, and fired at one of the ringlead
ers, the bullet piercing his arm. He
then arrested the man, and the result |
of this energetic action was the dis |
persal of the mob without much fur
ther difficulty.
The German gymnasium in the Alt |
staedter-Rng, in the centre Of the city, |
was plundered by a mob which was |
finally dispersed by a combined charge |
of soldiers and police.
MARTIAL LAW.
AS a result of the riot and disorders of |
the last twenty-four hours, the authorities |
have proclaimed the city under martial
law The Chief of Police, who is
Czech. was convicted of encouraging
and has been suspended from
office.
1t is now known that the number Of
injured reaches 800. They are being cared
for at the various hospitals.
The disturbances to-day have amounted
almost to a rebellion.
Thousands of Czech miners streamed
into Prague tonight from the surround
ing villages TO assist the rioters. The |
scientific Instruments I'm the German Uni
versity and High School have been de-
destroyed, and archives preserved for |
long time have been burned. 1t is still |
dangerous for Germans to venture into
he streets. A meeting of a German So
ciety in honor of the eightieth birthday Of
Professor Theodore Mommsen was pro-
hibited by the authorities, who feared ii
might provoke a collision with the Czechs
To-days riots would have been less Sc
.ious but that the troops available early
n the day were insufficient TO cope with
he rioting over so extended an area.
Together with German jubilations and
of clubs and beer halls over
he fall of Count Badeni the Czech popu-
alton was still further melted by the
Zech burgomaster's speech delivered ,
Monday night to the Town Council.
SPECIAL SUFFERERS.
Two special sufferers from the riots are
aaron Won Aehrenthal, a representative I
;erman landowner in the Reichsrath, | {
nd Count Won Salm. Baron Won Aeh-
enthal's palace is on the Wenzels-Platz. J
he mob smashed the windows, and tore
ut the window frames on the ground :
oor last night. Similar Outrages were | !
ommitted at Count Won Salm's palace, !
,hich is the editorial office of the German {
aper Bohemia.
During the night the Aehrenthal palace
,as boarded up, but the mob tore off the
lanks. and threw large stones into the
,xuriously furnished rooms smashing
aluable articles and costly furniture.
Damage to the amount of many thou
ands of norins has been done TO Ger
IAN firms, clubs, and other institutions
aying German proprietors or patrons. \
10 performance was given at the Ger I
IAN theatre tonight. The constant cry h
the rioters was Down with the Ger n
ANS" Down with the Jews" Ladies =
entuTing on the streets were Obliged to
ear the Slav tri-color, in order 10 avoid v
sing attacked. German sign-boards are a
ing hastily removed by their owners,
nd replaced with Czech inscriptions. 3
Nobody dares to utter a word in Ger H.
an.
KINsKY PALACE PLUNDERED. G.
The Kinsky Palace was plundered OF its =
Irniture, which was thrown through the d
indows, heaped in the street, ana set
| fire, the mob preventing the fire bril- In
Ides from approaching. u
The Wenzels-PlatZ. where the reVolu- c'
On of 1913 began. has been the chief -
ntre Of excitement 1t is about sixty a,
.rds in width. and 100 yards in length, q
ID will hold a thousand people. 81
The police and the military have made 81
arrests. -,
RIOT AT PILSEN. de
oILSEN, BOHEMIA, December LAS TO
result of the threatening meeting at
erin yesterday. the houses of German
sidents are especially guarded by the