The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-03
BAYONET RULE IN BOHEMIA.
PRAGUE sWARMING WITH TROOPS
AND UNDER MARTIAL LAW.

stores and Houses in Two Streets in
the Old Part of the City PiIIaged.
Military Patrol Fires Upon a Body
of Rioters at SmychOw-FOrty-Six
Persons Killed and More Than 500
Injured During n Hours.
Prague, Dec. 2.-Martial law has been
unclaimed here, as well as in the judicial
district of Karolenthat, Zeikow, Weinberg
and Smichow, as a result of the recent
riots.
There were further excesses at Vein
berg. The police were Obliged to use
their revolvers.
A house in Alstaderding was wrecked
and the pillagers were dispersed by a
mounted patrol
There were other acts of pillage at
Zizhskow, but the mobs everywhere were
quickly dispersed. The town is tranquil
this evening" and is being patrolled by
troops.
Rioting was resumed in Prague at s
o'clock this morning, when stores and
houses in two streets in the old town
were pillaged. Several battalions of in
fantry and two squadrons of cavalry were
called out to disperse the mob.
Two additional battalions of infantry
from Koenigegrants and three battalions
of infantry from Theresentadt have arriv
ed here.
The burgomaster and the municipal
councillors to-day submitted to the gov
ernment complaints against the German
students in connection with the recent dis
turbances. The governor replied that
while he well understood recent events
had caused great excitement, he was com
PEELED to point out that there was no JUS
tifcation for the excesses in this city, ard
he further declared that the utmost rigor
would be exercised in order to re-estabiish
order and to protect the property of Ger
mans.
The Poltik, declaring that the present
agitation was started by persons to whom
the falherland and nationality are mat
ters of indifference, appeals to-day to all
parties to restrain movement (which
might be fatal not only to the fatherland
and it's chief city, but TO the political as
pirations of the Bohemian nation"
Some of the persons arrested at Smy.
chow will be court-martialed for having
received with jeers and groans the prOcla-
nation declaring the city under martial
law.
The military patrol fired upon a body OF
rioters who were trying to demolish Jew
ism synagogue at Smychow. Nobody was
hit and the mob fed in confusion.
During the day eighteen persons have
been wounded. including two soldiers.
At the time this dispatch is sent the
suburbs are peaceful and the most of the
troops are being Withdrawn.
The factory employees have taken no
part in to-day's disorders and no arrests
have been made in their districts
The ambulance association has issued
TpDOrt showing that within the last
ty-four hours forty-siX persons have been
killed, fifteen dangerously wounded and
500 more or less seriously injured Twen-
ty shops have been burned out.
As further indication of the gravity of
the situation troops to the number of TO-
000 equipped with ammunition and other
paraphernalia, as for a campaign, have
been engaged in suppressing the riots.
The intimate knowledge the mob has
displayed of the exact position of all the
wealthiest German houses and of valua-
be German property shows that the riots
were organized in advance. The young
Czechs have paraded the streets wearing
plundered jewelry and comparatively few
German houses have escaped attack
Further troops are being drafted into
Prague from Vienna and elsewhere, and
tomorrow there will be at least 1900 SOL
ders in the city and its immediate sub
urbs.
ltHHds Lee. - ne parliamentary
deadlock continues. Baron Gautsch, the
new premier, has made no progress to-
wards a 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 reichsrath meets
with DR.. Won Abrahamovics in the chair
the same disorderly scenes will occur as
before.
Riots. more or less serious, are report
ed from Innsbruck, Brunn, Linz and
Saaz. In some cases, 1t is alleged, the
disturbances have been encouraged by the
municipal authorities. Generally the Bo-
hemian Jews have suffered most.
report is current tonight, though as
yet unconlirmed, that a mob at Prague at
lack the soldiers and q sanguinary en-
counter ensued. According to this rumor
the troops fired four volleys. killing twen-
ty-tve rioters outright and wounding
many.
1t is evident martial law was not pro-
claimed moment too soon al Prague
Well-dressed men, it is said, rode on bicy-
cles through the city and the suburbs
making lists of the German places marked
lor attack, and the work of the rioters be-
ing done in accordance with these lists
and in many places simultaneously, pre-
Nention was almost impossible.
Go,dsmiths and jewelers. showcases were
empued in minute Women carried bas-
kets to carry home groceries, while fur
nture and other articles too heavy to
carry were wantouly destroyed If the
troops had not used their swords and bay
onets freely Prague might have been
burned from end to end.
In several cases Jewish shop-keepers
escaped by the device of placing an illu-
mined crucifix in the shop windows. The
pillaging was so systematic that in one
street alone to-day fifteen Jewish shops
We're ransacked.
An ambulance corps was attacked saw
ovely because the doctors were recognized
as Germans