Whole of Bohemia in State of Commotion.
Australian aud NZ Cable Assoc. Paris, Jan 20 The Vienna paper, the Neve Freie Presaie, states that a strike movement is general throughout Lower Austria, Trieste, aud the Trieste Valley. All war industries iv Vienua aud its neighbourhood are shut down. Ten thousand workmen are on strike at the Wiener-Neustadt locomotive and munitiou factories. The Roeth aeroplane works at Lichtenroe;h arc closed. The> Matin states that the metal, and transport workers form the principal body, of strikers iv Austria. Very serious riociug has occurred at Vienua, Gratz, and Salzburg. Over 80 food stores and clothiog shops, and several restaurants in Vienna have been pillaged. The police intervened, many on both sides being injured. The garrison troops refused to march against the strikers. The whole of Bohemia is in a state of commotion. Soldiers fired on rioters at Prague and Pilson,
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 6966, 23 January 1918, Page 3
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