The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
But For Troops City Would Have
Been Burned.
GERMAN PLACES HAD BEEN
MARKED FOR LOOTING.
Ihe Rioting Has Continued However,
Probability That Present ReichsratIf
VIII Never observation-disclosures to
Compromise Unsucceful So Far.

VIII Never observation-disclosures to
Compromise Unsucceful So Far.
VIENNA, December At is evident
| that the Standreicht was not proclaimed
moment too soon at Prague. Well
| dressed men, it is said rode on bicycles
| through the city and suburbs making
lists OF the German places marked for at
taok and the work Of the rioters being
done IN accordance with these lists and
also IN many places simultaneously, pre-
vention was almost impossible
Women carried baskets to take home
the contents of grocery and provision
stores. If the troops had not used their
swords and bayonets freely Prague would
have beensburned from end to end.
In several cases Jewish shopkeepers
escaped by the device of placing an illu-
minated crucifx in the shop window.
An ambulance corps was attacked
savagely because the doctors were recog-
| n1zed as Germans.
TROOPS HOLD PRAGUE.
Prague, December 2.-Some of the ner-
sons arrested at Smychow will be court
1nartla!led for having received the pro-
c!amatlon declcaring the city under mar
tlaI laws with jeers and groans.
Inc military patrol fired upon a body of
rloters who were trying to demoIish
Jewlsh synagogue at Smyohow. Nobody
was hit and the mob fled in confusion.
During the day Is persons have been
wounded. At the time this despatch is
sent, II p. M, the suburbs are peaceful
and the most of the troops are being
wl4htiFawn. The factory employees tooS
Dr,d ~
bsen nc Asrest in their district.
The sna iarce ussociation mas issued
report showing that witbfn~ass last 90
hours four persons have DsaDZ lsslefi so
dangerously wounded and 500 nffe,ss 81 ~. ~.
less seriously injured. Twenty shops sac
been burned out. As further indioatfT
of the gravity of the situation, troops to
the number of 10. 600 equipped with am
munition and other paraphernalia, as for
a campaign, have been engaged in sup
pressing the riots.
The intimate knowledge the mob has
displayed of the exact position of all
the wealthiest German houses and of val
liable German property shows that the
riots were organized in advance.
Additional troops are being drafted
into Prague from Vienna and elsewhere
and tomorrow there will be at least
12,0 900 soldiers in the city.
MAY NEVER REASSEMBLE.
Vienna, December 2.-Ihe parliament
ary deadlock continues. Baron Gautsch,
the new premier has made no progress to-
ward compromise satisfactory to the
rival factions and it begins to be feared
that the present Reichsrath will never re-
assemble. Certain it is that If the
ReichsrathFmeets with DIR. Won Abra-
hamovitch in the chair the same disorder
| ly scenes will occur as before.
| Riots, more or less serious are reported
r 4
| In some cases it Is alleged that the dis
| turbances have been encouraged by the
municipal authorities. Generally the
| Bohemian Jews have suffered most.
| A report is current, though as yet un-
confirmed, that mob at Prague attacked
| the soldiers and an encounter ensued. Ac-
cording to this rumor the troops fired four
vo.leys, killing twenty five rioters out
right and wounding many.
| MORE RIOTS IN PRAGUE.
| Prague, December 2.-There have been
serious collisions between the police and
large mobs in the Schmow and Sizkow
suburbs ON the city this evening. Two
persons were wounded. The police made
| 80 arrests.
THE REICHSRATH TROUBLE.
Buda Pest, December 2-In the lower
house of the Diet here today. Franz
| Kossuth, son of the late Louis Kossuth,
! the Hungarian patriot, asked Baron
Banffy, the premier, whether the Hun
garian government in view of the politi-
cal situation in Austria. would submit
bills to enforce Hungarys right under
certain circumstances to act as free
agent in the settlement of economic
matters common to Austria and Hungary.
Kossuth, amid the applause of his sup
porters, concluded his remarks with ex-
pressing Indignation at the recent pro-
ceedings In the lower house of the Aus
trian Reichsrath.
Baron Banffy, in reply said he expected
to be able to make definite reply on
| Monday next.
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