New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-07
Amnesty Shows 10000
Poles and Czechs Haze
Been Hanged in Galicia

roles ana CZechS nQUe
Been Hanged in Calicia
An unparalleled sensation is said 70
have been caused in Austria Hungary
by the Emperor-king's recent amnesty
Of political offenders. Ths. Is not SUI
prising In view Of the need Of such a.
act, as suggested In revelation OF the
manner in which the Hspsburg bu
reaucracy has hitherto treated not
alone actual political offenders, but
also those who have been merely sus-
pected, often on the flim.iest pret.xts,
Of disaFection toward the government.
This revelation has been made not BY
aliens, nor by the victims, but officially
in the Austrian Reichsrath.
According to the official "Reichsrsth
Korrespondenz," which publishes only
things approved by the government, a
Czech-National Deputy. Striburs re-
Gently discussed the treatment OF the
interned, drawing the following pict-
ure:
"The suspension q tho civic rights
led to the idea Of politically suspicious,
questionable and unreliable citizens,
and to be so judged all that is needed
is an anonymous denunciation, the vic
tim Of which never learns by whom and
OF what he is being accused. The speak
r,Aas 90 sko fafanFfOp aud
viction Of political suspects, and tells
OF the treatment of the interned
among whom there were women, girls
and old men in letters.
all reatment and insufficient food for
prisoners were quite common. Chained
together in groups, they were trans
ported mostly in cattle cars. On the
way 10 the internment camp they were
abused, and forty-three prisoners, COM
posing one transport, were killed on the
streets by Honved detachment.
Waited Naked for an Hour
"The speaker then depicts in detail
the conditions in the internment camp
in the Thalerhof. near GratE. Some
OF the unfortunates, Immediately upon
leaving the cars, were logged and
otherwise tortured. The first three
NlgS ANtf ltHkNh III VIC ODtlA III
small space in the field four pole.
were driven into tho ground and no
one was permitted TO 60 beyond tn
outlined space. Women, girls and men
slept together. Not until the fourth
day were the informed transferred 70
the hangers, but there, too, they had
TO sleep on the ground. The clothes
Of those removed 70 these barracks
were disinfected, the intcrnad, among
them also women and girls, having 10
undress In the open and, in a state o.
nakedness, 10 wait often for an hour
for the return Of their clothes In De
cember, 1914, the number Of the in
termed reached five thousand
ITO epidemics alone 1000 persons
succumbed in the Thalerhof: in the
churchyard there 1000 dead are buried.
The next speaker was the DEPUTY
Neunteufel, of the German National
party. All the grave reproaches, all
the acts OF violence committed In Ga
licia he thought he could dispose OF
with the phrase: One cannot psrley
with the local authorities while the
enemy is before the gates For such
things people are hanged Then
Deputy Hene German National
League added: Indeed. rather TOO few
have been hanged.
Poles and Czechs Protest
"These brutal words threw the Pol
ish deputies into ferment; from all
sides Polish and Czech deputies cams
rushing and calling 20 Heine: You
kangmsr! You executionern
The next speaker, Deputy DR.. Ire
-Pacivic iCroatiaul, declared he had
already been prosecuted for his par
l!amentary utterances and, therefore.
would not address the house. Par
liamentarism in Austria IS becoming =
bloody farce. Tie said that after two
years imprisonment upon trial IN the
political suit instituted against him his
speeches in parliament and Diet were
read ~ the trial as evidence OF his
reasonable views by the public prose
cutor. who asked that he be found
guilty OF treason and sentenced 70
death. Under the present regime
he had no guarantee that n he
should now tell the full truth about the
conditions in the south Slavic coun-
tries. compared TO which the descrip-
tions of the conditions st the Thaler-
hof are but a faint picture, he would
not again be incriminated.
Tho next speaker was Deputy Das-
Zynsh Polish Club. Some speak OF
10000 persons hanged in Galicis, he
said others claim twice that number
The authorities hanged prisoners
without knowing what they we're
charged with. As an instance he told
of the case of village idiot OF whom
the community wanted TO rid itself
He was sent as a driver to Russian
Poland. lie returned with three M
bles in his pocket, was stopped by the
German army, and upon the discovery
OF the three rubles Immediately
hanged. what does the master raj.
lows builder Heine say to that" n.
asked.
"When reading these awful srrairr.
ments one understands why the A9.-
trian governmfnt lor Years refused