The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-06
Russian Paper Dropped in
Austria Cost Six Lives
and Jail Sentences
PICKED UP BY A
GIRL IN A HOSPITAL
Several Schoolboys Among Those Sen
tenced-Vienna Publication Exposes
Cruelty of the Military Courts That
Brought About Amnesty.


WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.-The cruelty
of Austrian court martial against which
the people Of Austria Hungary rebelled,
forcing a general amnesty proclama-
ton by Emperor Charles, is revealed
in an article translated from the Post
of Munich, Bavaria, on Aug. Is last,
given to the press by the committee on
public information.
This article, which the Munich paper
copied from the Wiener Arbciterzeitung,
(the Vienna Workingman 5 Gazette,)
which is printing a series of 'incred-
IDLE penalties. discloses that six per
sons were condemned to death and
thirty-threc others. several young
schoolboys, received prison sentences
aggregating ninety-one years for mere
" reading forbidden paper,
The "vcrboten paper contained
proclamations Of the former Gar of
Russia and General Rennekampf which
had been dropped by Russian air
plane on Austrian troops. \ copy was
found by q girl in hospital, where
She had been 10 visit a wounded sol
dier. She sent it to her uncle. who
read il to others. Nearly all who
heard the proclamation then or Suhse-
quentlv suffered the supreme or less
or penalties.
The story as published is in part as
! follows:
j" Anclia kolik, clerk, . years old
/ sent her uncle, Vladimir Kolik. a let
! ter in September, 1914, and incloSed in
! this letter a copy of proclamations 10y
4 the Gar and General Rcnnekampt
which had been dropped by Russian
airpanc on the Austrian troops and
which she had picked up from the iiool
OF q hospital where She had oCen &c
visit g wounded soldier. The girl va,
condemned TO death on account of this
copy. The uncle copied the protlama
tossn.AtQ. aS .Aalgl22 y. aud Isal !!
aloud one day 20 one 1TIaSdik, an en-
/ ploye, at session of the Directors 81
| the Land Loan Company and hau h'H
make cory of it. For permitting
this copy to be made. Kolik vas like
| wise condemned TO death.
THE emplovc made three copic
and passed them on to SONS of his &c
quaiatances. He was conutn ned I,
death fer this. and two oi his friend
VINO had merely read the licrlaratio.
and had immediately burned the copic
were condemned to five and three year
in the pcnitentiary. This third friend
Paral by name. loaned his copy TO y
office mate, Brczanskv, who immediat,
De-, Il
| dcmcd to death for loaning his copy
| Burch, an employee of an insurance con
| panv. read the proclamation ola thl
occasion. He was condemned a. tnrc
| years in the penitentiarv.
| = III lansky gave one copy 60 ~
/ man tmuoye named Pstoa, the other I
his friend Toman, a eonfectioner. Br,
| ..anskv was condemned to death. 1oma
cad the papers through and, fearIn
| lafm, destroyed them. lie is "a
dcumed to three years in the penitcl
tiarv. The Fsota woman read the fir
proclamation aloud to her laudiad
named ITCHY, and expressed horror
II il After the ITCHY woman understo.
| Oh. purport of the proclamation SIC .
came excited at the insult to Il
Il Czcehs contained in it, and strong
| aeged the Psota woman to burn Il
| copy. This She did in candle fan
J after a short time. On the ground III
: she had undoubtedly contributed to 4
u Indignation against these proclamatio
l She was not condemned although 81
| had read the document.
l The article then goes on to say h,
| the document got into a school a
| passed from one pupil to another wi
the result that several children we
l sentenced to prison for long terms T
article concludes:
And so4the copy which Aure!i4 *
l lik sent her uncle became the cause
the condcmning of thirty-nine pcrsoi
Six death sentences and sentences
grcgating ninetyone years of conhi
ment III the pcnitcntiary were broug
about.