GENERAL STRIKE

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19057, 20 July 1927, Page 11

GENERAL STRIKE

ENDS. VIENNA NEARLY NORMAL. SOCIALISTS GIVE IN.

(BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT). (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received July 18th, 7 p.m.) VIENNA, July 18.

Railway, postal, telegraph, and telephone services re-opened at midnight, the trade unions deciding to call off the strike in order to bring the dispute back to a Parliamentary footing. A statement claims that the general strike was carried out without a hitch, showing the power of the Socialists, but the change of front following their interview at noon-day with M. Seipel, who emphatically rejected the Socialists' terms, conveys . its own moral. Fashionable quarters of the city have resumed their usual light-heaftedness and even gaiety, smartly-gowned women and well-dressed men promenading as though nothing had happened. The police, however, still carry carbines and soldiers wear steel helmets. The burned-out shell of the Palace of Justice will long remain a reminder of "Red Friday." Among the treasures destroyed was Austria's centuries-old Doomsday Book. A register of marriages and divorces was among the unrepiaceable legal records lost. Newspapers are reappearing and the Bourse has reopened. There have been 300 arrests, largely Communists, including the German, Picek.

FOREIGN INFLUENCES.

REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL ARRESTED.

("THE MMB8.")

(Received July 18th, 7 p.m.) VIENNA, July 18. The Austrian Government is in possession of complete proof that the revolt was planned hy foreigners instructed from Moscow. Forty Communists, believed to constitute the Revolutionary Council, were arrested at the offices of the newspaper "Reotefane," where they were in consultation. A majority of these are foreigners. Several Russians crossed the frontier with forged passports, and one of them is charged with setting fire to the law Courts. Conditions in Vienna are now practically normal.

ARMED DEFENCE CORPS. ITALIAN MINISTER PROTESTS. (Sydney "Sot" Smvke.) (Received July 19th, 7.15 p.m.) .LONDON July 18: The Exchange Agency's Vienna correspondent reports that the Italian Minister has protested against the formation of an armed defence corps as being contrary to the Peace Treaty.

THE STREET RIOTS.

MANY YOUTHS KILLED.

(AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. AND SUN CABLE.)

VIENNA, July 18.

A remarkable number of youths between 15 and 19 years of age are among thoße killed in the street riots.

The city is rapidly returning to normal, largely as the result of the Chancellor's manifesto that the sternest measures of repression will be adopted if the disorders continue. Trains have resumed the transportation of workmen. Sunday was very quiet, except for a clash in a suburb of Hernals, where a police station was attacked,, and seven persons killed during the fighting.'

PANIC IN PROVINCIAL TOWN.

(AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. AND SUN CABLE.)

BUDAPEST, July 18. It is reported that the entire population of Somfalva, panic-stricken by a rumour that armed workmen were marching on them from Vienna, fled over the Hungarian frontier, and that the Socialist . Defence Corps carried them off to an unknown destination. A priest, a brother-in-law of one of the acquitted Socialists, web killed. A Vienna message states that further fighting has broken out in the city streets.