LATEST WAR NEWS.
BOHEMIAN RIOTS. INDEPENDENCE CLAIMED FOR CZECH-SLAV STATE. (Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, June 20. The "Matin" reports that great revolutionary demonstrations have been held in Prague, the capital of Bohemia, for tome da vs. The Workmen's Committee, representing every factory in the city, issued a manifesto demanding a constituent Atssembly for the Czechs, on the ua.-i- of universal suffrage, for the purpose of founding an independent CzechSlav State. Tens of thousands of the inhabitants asr-emblcd at the monument of John of Xepoanus. a noted Czech li'oerator, and cmi; the .--lav hymn, adding the i\ords "Rlteoia and France are with us." The demonstrators afterwards stormed the German Club. The gendarmes charged thetn. and many were wounded. .similar riots occurred iv the principal Bohemian tow n^.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 147, 21 June 1917, Page 2
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