Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-16

were killed and hundreds injured.
MANY of them seriously. The material
damage was extensive.
The Palace Of Justice was ruined by
fire started by a mob, and there are
reports that the Ministry of Ports was
also set on fire, and Parliament House,
the Opera House and perhaps other
buildings were more or less seriously
damaged.
What made the gravity of the stu
alton particularly felt here was the
fact that all communication was sud
denly cut off at o'clock Lass night.
when in obedience TO general strike
order. the telegraph and telephone
operators left their posts like one
man.
Socialists Disappointed.
The ostensible cause of the outbreak
was the acquittal Thursday night OF
three Austrian Monarchists charged
with shooting to death n man and a
bow during a Socialist demonstration
in a village near the Hungarian Dor
der last January 1t is known, how
ever. that the Socialists were bitterly
disappointed at not having succeeded
as we'll as expected in the recent gen
eral election. which, while it gave
them increased representation, did not
change the state of the parties ma
teriallv and left the bourgeois group
in control Of the administration.
From the welter of contradictory
stories reaching here from neighbOr-
ing countries, which might for politi-
cal reasons not be averSe to Coloring
the accounts, it is difficult to piece to-
gether exactly what occurred Ap-
Darently the workers called a strike
in the morning and organized Il 81
gantic manifestation to protest
against the verdict. They con1man-
deered street cars, and although me
police did their best to }Eepherd the
demonstrators and on the whole sue.
ceeded. there were number Oh
clashes in which shots were fired on
both sides. Then the mob began to
get ugly. 1t was soon evident it was
getting out of hand altogether, and a
slight incident was liable to start Il
large scale outbreak. This was pro
vided by a fierce tussle between the
police and a crowd in front or a
church on the Macmillan platZ.
Judges Report Beating.
Private advices reported at Bratis-
Law by the correspondent Of the Havas
News Agency. state that when the
police tried to dispense the mob. 300
of tho PlatZ manifestants opened
fire The police are said to have re
turned the fire. Infatuated. the crowd
swept them down like chaff and rush
ed for the Palace of Justice, bearing
down all opposition. It stormed the
building. cut the gas pipes, set hre
to the escaping gas and in Few min
ha wr9nDo0
in flames.
The Vienna correspondent of the
Journal says the manifestants beat
and otherwise ill.used the judges in
the courts, gathered all records and
documents they could lay their hands
on and fed them to the flames. Other
bands, he reports, attacked the uni
versity building. Parliament House
and the city hall, with more or less
success, and even began raising bar
ricades to prevent troops being
brought up.
Fighting also took place near the
Opera House, which is not far from
some of the leading hotels, from
which. according to the correspond.
ent of the continental edition of
the London Daily Mail, many tourists
looked on.
Police Use Machine Guns.
The worst battle seems to have
been fought around the city hall.
Yielding to pressure from govern
mental leaders, the chief of police de-
cided to rush machine guns there.
These at once opened fire. several
rioters being killed or wounded. 1t is
stated that the fire was restrained
until it was apparent the mob was
going to rush the building. The
square in front of the city hall soon
was Uttered with dead and wounded.
and in short time the interior of
the building resembled a field hos
pital, more than 100 persons lying
bleeding on the floors. BY this time
the police had been reinforced and
attachments of troops had also ar
rived with machine guns.
Apart from this some of the most
serious fighting occurred in the
Lightenfelstrasse, where, according to
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