ANNEXATION OF BUKOWINA

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 122, 19 November 1914, Page 7

ANNEXATION OF BUKOWINA

HOW THE COSSACKS ENTERED THI TOWN. LEVY ON THeTnHABITANTS. ' (Received November 19, 11. SO a.m.) PETROGRAD, 18th November. Details are to hand of ' the Russian 'annexation of Bukowinn, a crownland oh Austria. The Cossacks made a dramatic entry into Csserhowila with bands of choristers. General Arintinoff Bummoned the townsfolk to the steps of the Municipal Palace and levied six huttdred thousand roubles (£62,500) in revenge for {lie amount the Austrian General Daulfctin exacted . from Kamenez and Podolski. where General Arintinoff's daughter had been obliged to sacrifice her own jewels ; otherwise General Arinhnoff threatened to immediately train Ins big guns and level Czernowitz to the* ground. The populace was terror-strick-en, but finally the Archbishop persuaded. Ihe General to accept three hundred thousand crowns (about £12,500). A LESSON TAUGHT. For a whole day the city fathers and priests travelled the countryside beg« ging, and peasants came to the Town Hall weeping and deposited their trinkets, while the Jews sacrificed their ritual candelabra. The Archbishop contributed 50,000 crowns' worth of silver and altar furniture. Finally; the burgomaster broke into the shops of the goldsmiths, who fled. When the money had been collected, General Anntinoff cam© to the Towa

Hall and said: — "City Fathers, you look fagged." After inspecting the treasure, he said: "Take it back; I only wanted you to experience the heartburnings of Kamenez and Podolski."