Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-03-01
UNREST in ENEMY
COUNTRIES

The following ~ 49,.
LINT upon disturbed cona.'lo -
envy ~ Committee on Public a
49, action nv a Serbian Official, VINO
ro.n;..sd them from the Serbian gen
eral staff at Salontki: -.
I'm letters found on Austr1ans AK
-, %nr;soners during the recent opera
Rows m the Saloniki front (Ohriaa
LIE sector), are numerous details
relatiye to the disorders which look
nlace in Bohemia last summer.
According to a letter oatea June
=, 1917. a great labor denomination
49, Mace at Brunsberg, in Moravia.
T RI workmen on strike pillaged the
nc rehouses, The military had to in-
torvene. There were II people killed.
schlan, to the northwest OF
,r. rue there were troubles caused by
f,mine. A letter dated August 8, 1917,
r;ves the following details: The wom-
on of Schlan went in q BODY. TO the
subprefect and declared to him that
they were starving. the
told them to help themselves a. pest
they could. AS a consequences, the
women went into the field and carried
of the beans. While they were doing
So. h e were fired upon. Two women
and two children were killed. three
seriously wounded. Many wounded
s,ccumbed later to their injuries.
MANY things are happening here
which you can hear only on your re-
turn
I'm another Bohemian town (the
letter does not contain n indication
of where it is dated from and bears
the date of Aug. 10, 1910. q strike,
last a great demonstration took place.
(says the writer), but it passed of
peaceably. All the workmen and work.
women of the factories. about 5000 in
all, INDUCED, from half-past 10 in the
morning, in demonstrations before the
town hall, the prefecture, and the Ia
Dor exchange. There the result Of the
negotiations vas communicated to
them, and they returned to work.
This state Of things forces the
Austrian authorities to keep troops in
vinces, especially in the parts inhabit-
ed by the Slavs. We have here troops
in garrison lis stated in a letter dated
from Kralup, Aug. is, 1910. There
were recently numerous riots on ac-
count of which we are under strict
surveillance In another written July
/, 1917, from Gitschin, it is stated:
We have here in garrison the Nineti-
eth Polish regiment. which has re-
placed the Magyar troops. Among
them there are many Czech soldiers.
who are much more amiable and
much more intelligent than the Mag
vars, and they do not insult our girla.'
The most important events. 1t
seems, took place in the Skoda gun
factories at Pilsen. These are deecfib-
ed in detail in the following letter.,
prague, July 20, 1917.
MY Dear R: l am back again
at Prague. My leave expired the 18th
May, but did not return till the 18th,
as l felt no pleasure in returning.
There We're great demonstrations at
worst was on Monday. The women
rushed through the streets like mad
and awaited their husbands when
they left their work at the Skoda fac
tories.
They then Joined their husbands,
and the crowd marched in different
bodies through the town in various
directions. In an instant the iron shut
tiers OF the shops were driven In, the
windows were smashed, and every
thing in the windows was carried off.
The provision shops, the dry goods
stores, the boot shops, the restaurants,
and even private houses were bonn
barded with stones, completely wreck
cd and ~plundered. A Jew appeared at
MS window, showing a pastry mock
& to the crowo. and laughed Mt
them and called out, You would like
that, too?" The crowd burst in his
doors, sacked his house. and carried
on everything except a broken table.
me cellar OF a wine merchant was
also. Numbered. The crowd seized q
dren drank the contents, and then
rusned drunk about the streets.
:Ine soldiers charged the crowd
with liked bayonet, and opened FIRE on
.nen'. lney fired in the air with q; view
70 re-establishing order without blood
sned. The following day the martial
laW was proclaimed, but the crowd
rer,nnuea to destroy everything; two
tssinnents OF foreign troops were.
n,tusn. IN. when these arrived, the
au.horities had sufficient. troops at.
their disposal. 10. -" -
The greater state Of, siexa was
procialmed within the Skoda; factories,
me authorities tried to force +
Morkmen to resume work at he noint:
~ lne oayonet. but the attemnt fail
ca. me men refused to work IL. thai
u u';ii are not granted. The riots
VII break out afresh in spite Of the
euon. martlai. The workmen have had
S Sjn o the present conditions,
runnin, ~ no1s noe railways are
ra ann'1s, as the crowd tore up@sthe
th hars' r . eou, not return to Prague for
It ita wa ,eas SOL and was very glad Of it.
~ "as really very interesting "a aaa
az - titat' though of course. ons rar
onet wound. et VI z Day
,ater a. hrst was a little afraid. hut
strea On laughed with pleasure. Ths
IT, = ee.s are extremely nterestine. met
s nre Inc moving pictures. Xii ~
hrosa are covered with broken glass
have All sn thaers etc. Many houses
sne. s az Ihelr windows broken onS