The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-06-21
Riot in Vienna Reaches Alarm
ing Crisis-Many Shops Pill
LACED, Some Destroyed.
BLOODY STREET FIGHTS
Strike of Hundred Thousand
Workmen in Vulcan Arsenal
at Vienna Called.
international News service.)

London, June 21.-Fifty thousand
persons, crying for "bread and peace
took part in the food riots in Vienna,
said an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Zurich today.
The police charged the mobs with
drawn swords and bloody fighting fol-
lowed.
Many shops were pillaged and some
were destroyed.
A Central News dispatch from Am
sterdam says that the socialists at
Vienna have issued a manifesto, say
ing that the Austrians do not know
how they can live any longer.
The Amsterdam correspondent OF
the Express interprets the warning of
the burgomaster of Vienna to the
premier that he cannot guarantee or
der, If the bread rations are reduced
any further, as an expectation Of rev.
olution.
Rioting continues in the Austrian
capitol; outbreaks are taking place in
other cities also.
A great strike of 100000 workmen
had been called in tho vulcan arsenal
at Vienna. The workers in the war
schalowski airplane plant are out
also. "a
The Arbeiter Zeitung of Vienna. in
a strong article, demands the resigna-
ton of Premier Won Seydler.
Zurich reports further demonstra-
tions by workmen in the Austrian
capital and a continuation of the par
tial strike"
A dispatch from Copenhagen quoted
the German socialist newspaper Vor-
waerts as saying that Hungary had
offered 1000 carloads of potatoes to
Vienna but there is no prospect OF
the Austrian food situation being I'M
proved for three weeks. :,
Travellers arriving in Switzerland
are quoted in dispatches as saying tnat
famine-"stark, medieval famine e.
threatens all of Austria
The great mass of the Austroz Hun
garian people are more than war sick,
one traveller was quoted as saying
Their sole thought is of bread. The
morale of the Austrian populace has
fallen so low that the government has
begun to fear spread of bolshevik-
ism.
One whole issue of the Arbeiter lei
tung, of Vienna, was confscated be-
cause it had demanded an investiga-
ton into two horrible cases of murder
of prisoners of war by their fellow
workmen in the gas works in the six
teenth munitions district of Vienna.
The matter was referred to in par
lament, but was hushed up In the
press.
Workers in Vienna, unable to eat the
stuff that was called bread" marched
to the hall and flung the loaves against
the windows as a protest
"Give us bread" Is a cry that rings
through all of Austria.
In reply to an appeal from the burgo-
master of Vienna the burgomaster OF
Budapest telegraphed:
1--WE, too, are in bad way. Flour /
and bread rations have been decreased /
md the food lines are long. There is |
10 reserve stock"
The Neue Freie Presse warns that !
/ revolution will break out unless the |
situation is remedied. This Vienna |
declared further that the /
conditions in Prague and other indus
rial cities is such that unless the bread |
'ations are increased the railways will
,e stopped.
The Arbeiter Zeitung says that Aus
ria's allies must quickly remedy the
situation in order to prevent serious
Count Tisza, in addressing the Hun
,arian parliament at Budapest. said
hat many provinces have only one
bird or fourth of the necessary
ood, according to an Exchange Tele-
.raph dispatch from Copenhagen. He
ldded that the situation at Vienna was
-ery bad.