The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-02-23
THE STUDENTS REVOLT IN AUS
TRIA.

The lectures at all the German high
schools in Austria, namely, the Uniyer-
stiles CT Vienna, Graz, Innsbruck, and
Prague, the technical high schools of
Vienna, Brunn, Graz, and Prague, the
agricultural high schools of Vienna,
schools of mines, etc., with the sole ex-
ception of the theological fa,ulty and the
hospital lectures in Vienna-have been
suspended, upon a government order, BY
the respective rectors, for eight days in
the. ease. of Vienna University, and IN the
case of other high schools for an indefinite
time within fortnight, the rectors hay
ing been allowed to use their discretion
mn to that limit. The general students
strike, which has succeeded beyond the
expectation of the authorities IS thus
replied to by q lockout on the strict lines
of strike law, withasthe essential difference
that the German National students, q
smallS minority at all the high schools
mentioned, who, following the lead OF
Herr Wolf, were forcibly preventing the
majority of students from attending the
lectures, require no strike pay, and can
not be starved out; so that whatever may
be done next, moral-or, rather, I'M
moral-yiotory Will be on their side.
They formed small gangs of between
twenty and thirty, provided with heavy
clubs, and SO distributed them early this
morning within the university that at
eight. when some of the lectures COM
menced, one gang at least was ready Tor
each lecture room. They entered and
tried to disturb the professor by cries,
whistling, kissing, and stamping; and,
If tn. professor Immediately ceased, he
received a personal ovation, and the gang
went further to another room. In some
cases, however the students at particu-
lar lecture resisted the Invaders, ana the
professor had to close to prevent actual
lighting. In one case in which the pro-
fessor, DR. Zuckerkandl, of the Anatolnl-
cal Institute and most OF his hearers
were Jews. the doors of the lecture room
were locked on the inside to prevent dis
turbance But the German National STU
dents hammered the door. with their clubs
till splinters of broken panel fell uron
those inside. and, as the second door, a
glass door. was also forced, and one of
the students wounded by falling glass, the
professor had to give way. Just IN time.
before a fight between the intruders and
the invaded, the beadle announced, in the
rector's name, the suspension OF lectures
for eight days.
At the Clinical Institutes, where the
Lectures are held at the bedside, the
demonstration took only the form Of the
German National students walking out
in body as soon as the professor COM
menced, and the patients, at least, We're
respected, On the suspension of the lee
turos becoming known, the students as
sembled in Aula in two parties, namely,
the victorious German Nationals, and the
Slav students of different nationalltles,
assisted by the Social-Democrats ana
Jewish students, cycling each other as If
in readiness for m immediate fight. In
deed, tine cry was soon raised, "Out
with Czechs from our university sticks
were freely used on both sides, and during
the struggle the stick of a swordst lex
belonging to "a Bosnian student was
pulled off, and. the sword being seen,
there was great excitement. But the
rumor that the Slav students used their
daggers or knives against the Germans
proved untrue. The Slavs were hustled
out of Aula, and, as all the exhortations
and warning of the rector proved aineffec-
tive, the Germans were also turned out,
and the doors of the uniyersity-even the
doors to the university llDfary-Were
closed. The students, massing outside
the building, had to be warned off by the
police, whereupon quiet was restored in
the neighborhood over the dinner hour.
In the afternoon, however, saw about
a thousand students parade IN front of the
university, demonstrating their victory
and little mindful of the irregular way in
which it was achieved. l doubt if these
paradcs will satisfy these unemployed, be-
cause, for more than a week, 6, 700
students of the university alone, and,
with the technical schools, about 10000
young men, can hardly remain quiet, es-
pecially as the different nationalities are
only too eager for fight. BY the use of
the same terrorism which was employed
in Vienna, the closing of all other uni
versities has been enforced, and from