RED FRIDAY

Evening Star, Issue 19613, 20 July 1927, Page 5

RED FRIDAY

THE VIENNA TROUBLE I foreign communists responsible Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. VIENNA, July 18. The railway, postal, telegraph, and telephone services were reopened at midnight, the trade unions deciding to call off the strike in order to bring the dispute buck to a parliamentary footing. A statement issued claims that the general strike was carried out without a hitch, showing tho power of the Socialists, out a change of front following Monday’s interview with Dr Seipel, who emphatically rejected the Socialists’ terms, conveys its own moral. . Tho fashionable quarters in the city have resumed their usual light-hearted-ness, even gaiety, smartly gowned women and well-dressed men promenadinrr as though nothing had happened. The police, however, still carry caibines, and, tho soldiers wear steel helmets. Tho burned-out shell of the Palace of Justice will long remain a reminder of Red Friday Among the tioasures destroyed was Austria’s cen-turies-old Doomsday Book. Tho newspapers are reappeal mg and the Bourse has reopened There have been 300 arrests, largely Communists, including Pieck (President of the German Communists).

The Austrian Government is in possession of complete proof that tho revolt was planned by foreigners, instructed from Moscow. Forty Communists, believed to constitute 'the Revolutionary ■Council, were arrested at tho offices of tho newspaper ‘ Reotefane,’ where they wore in consultation. Tho majority of these aro foreigners. Several Russians crossed tho frontier with forged passports, and one of them is charged with setting fire to the Law Courts. 1 The conditions at Vienna are now practically normal. ITALY’S PROTEST. LONDON, July IS. The Exchange Agency’s Vienna correspondent reports that the Italian Minister has protested against the formation of an armed defence corps, which is contrary to the Peace Treaty. —A. and N.Z. and ‘Sun’ Cable.