The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-06-21
VIENNA RI0TING
GROWS; COUNCIL
DEMANDS PEACE
Failure on Italian Front
Adds to Fury of Hungry
MObS.
Bl' RGOMASTER HELPLESS
Cavalry on Way to Capital
and Martial Law Is
Anticipated.
Special Cabie Despatch to TRr Sr>.
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I.oHpoN June -0.---The situation in
Austria Is becoming daily more serious
according to dispatches from German
and Swiss sources TO the effect that
the Austrian failure on the Italian front
has added 20 the Generalization OF the
people caused by the reduction Of the
bread ration.
Dispatches received to-day state that
crowds assembled in the streets Of
Vienna, where serious riots occurred
Yesterday as protest against the re-
duced ration. and unless the condition
proves 20 be only temporary 1t is inn
possible TO say what the consequences
may be. The mobs yesterday broke
into number OF bakeries and stoned
The residence of the Premier. Dr. Won
Seydler az well as one OF the wings or
the Hofburg palace. Regiments OF cav
airy are reported on the way to the
ca pita! and it is openly stated that mar
tial law is certainty unless order Is
quickly restored.
An Amsterdam telegram states that
the Burgomaster Of Vienna has informed
the Premier that unless the food sttua-
ton IL improved Immediately he vii! not
be responsible for order.
People RlaMe Germany.
The hungry people blame Germany
for the food shortage. remembering
promises, made at the time the Ukraine
peace treaty was signed that the hrst
food supplies received from that source
would he turner over 10 Austria,
I,A
Council OF Vienna. realizing that food
conditions cannot be bettered while the
war lasts, has called for a general peace
as quickly as possible on the principle
OF no annexatIons and no indemni,ies.
/ The council has sent resolut!o.s 10
| this eject through the Social Democratic
party TO tho Minister o. Foreign Affairs.
Tie Arbeifcr Iei'uno warns the Govern
nent that unless food conditions are
f. improved there will he strikes. In the
suburbs number OF strikes already
/ have occurred and the police have been
| forced 10 disrerse a number OF process
! soHs
The wo-hrrcn demand that immediate
supplies Of wheat be sen, from Germany
| and Hungary in order to avert trouble.
Ic are iloI toil'i'ic' ~
| Vienna. In the provinces there is a
| complete shortage OF breadstuffs, Con-
! di,ions are always worse outside the
| capltal, the Government fearing that
! discomfort il started in the capital would
! spread more quickly than II 1t originated
elsewhere
| starvation IN Bohemia
| Serious trouble has been reported AT
Gratz. II having been known ever since
! the Emperor visited Bohemia and the
/ TyroI that the villages there have had
almost nothing to eat.
The Berlin Vosslschc Zcii,lno prints q
story proving conditions are unimprovcd
there despite the E.mperor's promises, 1t
states that the BurEomaa'er Of tho Bo-
hemian village OF Schluckenau. after ex-
! hausting every other possible means OF
obtaining food from Austria. conceived
tho idea OF sending n telegram TO tho
German Emperor asking help.
IN this telegram the Bureoniasier
pointed out that inasmucn az his village
was close to the German frontier ne felt
! iustiacd in appealing to the Kaiser s
heart to save his fellow villagers from
| starvation. lie added that the village
! had been attached to everything Ger
man. IT," telegram was intercepted 10y
| the Austrian censor and the Burgomas,er
| and members OF the village council row
face trial for attempted treason.