The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-16
|4O ARE DEAD,
MANY HURT,
SAY REPORTS
Workers Set Palace of Justice
and Other Buildings
on Fire
JUDGES ARE BEATEN
Outbreak Centers Around
City Hall - Socialists
Are Blamed
JUDGES ARE BEATEN

Are Blamed
Paris, July 16.- @ -vienn n a,
among the stateliest capitals Of Eu-
rope, was plunged into one of the
worst riots Of. its checkered history
Yesterday, but reports reaching Paris,
both by way of Berlin and the Czecho-
Elovakia frontier town of Bratis-
lava. today indicated that the police,
hitter fighting all afternoon, restored
semblance of order late in the eve
hing.
How many fell in the battle it was
impossible to determine. Reports
we're conflicting, but it appears GER
ain that not less than 40 persons
vcrc killed and hundreds injured,
many of them seriously. The ma
erial damage was extensive.
The palace of justice was ruined
" fire started by mob, and there
re reports that the ministry of ports
yas also set on fire and parliament
ouse, the opera house and perhaps
ther buildings were more or less Sc
iously damaged.
Strike Is Called
What made the gravity OF the sit
alton particularly felt here, was the
act that all communication was sud-
enly cut off at Z o'clock last night
then, in obedience to general strike
rider, the telegraph and telephone
perators left their posts.
The Ostcnsible cause Of the out
reak was the acquitta Thursday
light of three Austrian monarchists,
harged with shooting to death a
Ian and a boy during a socialist
demonstration in village near the
hungarian border last January.
It is known, however, that the
pcialists were bitterly disappointed
not having succeeded as we'll as
kpected in the recent general cleo
lon, which, while it gave them in
teased representation, did not
hange the state of the parties ma
rially and left the bourgeois groups
control of the administration. =
Mob Gets Ugly
From the welter Of contradictory
kories reaching here from neighbor-
hp counties, which might for poiiti-
reasons, not be averse to color
the accounts, it is difficult to
Zee together exactly what occurred.
pparently the workers called a
rike in the morning and organized
gigantic manifestation to protest
tainst the verdict. They comman-
cred street cars and although the
lice did their best to shepherd the
m onstrators and on the whole sue.
edod there were number OF
she's in which shots were fired on
th sides. Then the mob began to
uplv. II was soon evident it was
ttinp out of hand altogether, and
slight incident was liable to staff
large scale outbreak. This was
pyided bv a fierce tussle between
nolice and a crowd in front Of q
urch on the Maximilian Platz.
Police Return Fire
Private advices, received at Bratis-
by the correspondent OF tne
was news agency, state tnat whsn
police tried to disperse the mop,
Of the Platz manifestant. opened
e. The police are said to have re-
med the fire. Infuriated, the
wd swept them down like cna11
rushed for the palace Of Justice,
hring down all opposition. IL
rmed the building. cut the gas
les, set fire to the escaping gas
in few minutes the whole eoi-
was wrapped in flames. =.
Che Vienna correspondent OF the
hrnal says the manifestants beat
otherwise illused the judges IN
courts, gathered all records ana
(uments they could lay their hands
and fed them to the flames. other
IDS, he reports, attacked the uni
sity building, parliament house
the city hall, with more or less
cess and even began raising. bar
ldes to prevent troops being
lght up. i =,
lighting also took place near the
"a house, which is not far from
e of the leading hotels, from
ch, according to the correspondent
the Continental edition OF the
don Daily Mail. many tourists
ed on.
Rush Machine Guns
be worst battle seems to have
fought around the city hall.
ding to pressure from govern
tai leaders, the chief Of police
ded to rush msehfne guns there.
pc at once opened fire. several
ers being killed or wounded. 1t
ated that the fire was restrained
it was apparent the mob was
to rush the building. The
re front Of the city hall soon
Uttered with dead and wounded
in short time, the interior Of
building resembled - field hos
more than 100 persons lying
ding on the floors. BY this time.
police had been reinforced and
chments Of troops had also ar
with machine guns.
|art from this, some of the most
lus fighting occurred in the
tenfelstrasse, where, according
he socialists, somebody fired on
crowd from q window, woundfng
OF the demonstrators, who col
q. The mob thereup0n stormed
house and threatened to hang
An they found in It to q lamp
He was only saved BY hastily
ed guard from the socialist
!AERs IN SUBURBS
fRloE POLICE
|ris, Joly H. a single dis
received direct from riot-torn)
ma slAc1 yesterday afternoon,
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