The Washington herald., 1919-04-21
IDLE AUSTRIANS
Make DEMANDS
Violence Threatened .Un-
less Unemployed Are
Conceded Privileges.

Berne, April 19.-Although order has
been restored in Vienna, recent events
are looked upon by the public as sin
lister forebodings of what may follow,
Similar symptoms appeared before
Munich and Budapest went over to
Bolshevism.
Following yesterdays demonstra-
tior before the city hall and Parlia-
ment building by crowds of thou
sands of unemployed. many of whom
were ex-prisoners of war, cripples and
invalids. Chancellor Renner received a
deputation.
The committee made known 10 the
officials its demand for immediate re-
lief. They demanded that the gov
ernment alIot 1000 kroner TO each un-
employed person in addition to an
allotment of twenty-five kroner per
day. An increase is the bread ration
of 800 grams was also demanded. The
government will be allowed three days
in which to comply with the demands.
A refusal means violence, leaders
stated.
Under the impression that the depu-
tation received by the chancellor had
been placed under arrest, the crowd
waiting outside the Parliament be-
came restless. Shooting began.
Chancellor Renner promised to do
his best for the delegation. They
threatened to resort TO violence unless
their demands were met within three
days.
Three persons were killed and
thirty-six wounded in the resultant
scramble. Some flying stones struck
the. automobile in which an Italian
military mission was passing through
the city. None of the members were
injured.
The Parliament building was sud-
denly set afire. The flames destroyed
a part of the building, but were finally
brought under control and the crowd
dispersed. y
Public opinion in Vienna considers
these incidents sinister and significant,
as they parallel similar demonstra-
tions occurring in Munich and Buda-
pest before those cities were taken
over by the radical element.
Ukrainian newspapers received here
report that three regiments of Soviet
infantry, one cavalry detachment and
an artillery brigade mutinied and sur
rendered at Homel to the army of
Gen. Petluras, the Ukrainian anti
Bolshevist commander. All prisoners
admitted the utter disorganization ex-
listing in the Soviet armies.
Nicolai Lenine, Russian Bolsheik
premier, in a recent speech at the
Peoples House in Petrograd, expressed
great pessimism regarding the Boil
shevik forces in Ukrainia, owing to
the lack of transportation and food.
He declared the lack of railways
made it impossible to transport suffi-
cient wheat from the Ukraine to feed
the Russian cities. He declared the
Ukrainian peasants had not been con-
verted to Bolshevik ideas to the ex-
tent that they were willing to part
with their products. He said that by
this action they assisted the forces of
reaction.
Dispatches here report that Gen.
Merker's troops entered wolffenbuet
tel. the Communist capital of Bruns-
wick, without meeting resistance.
Order has been restored at Leipzig,
where the railway workers are on
strike. Refugees arriving in Berne
from Munich report that dramatic
military preparations are being made
in the towns just outside the Bava.
rian capital.
Barbed wire, camoufiage and gas are
being used in an effort to overthrow
the existing government in Munich.
the refugees say.