VIENNA RIOTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 July 1927, Page 5

VIENNA RIOTS

SOVIET INCITEMENT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 20. The Riga correspondent of “The Times” reports that the Soviet leaders, refusing to believe that the Vienna riots have been suppressed, are issuing fiery messages of encouragement to their revolutionary comrades in Austria, and also manifestoes abroad urging the workers to follow up the good beginning in Vienna, and to destroy the bourgeoisie. They declare that the general strike is a sharp weapon only if it is directed by genuine revolutionaries. They declare that Austrian workers must establish Soviets in every district, and that Dr. Seipel’s Government must be destroyed, and a workmen’s government established. The Soviet Press announces that the South Chinese Communists have decided to proceed secretly, because their lawful existence, since there has been a betrayal of their cause by the Hankow Government, has become impossible. FUNERAL OF VICTIMS. VIENNA, July 20. There were impressive scenes at the cemetery at the joint funeral of fiftyseven victims of the riots. There were thousands of mourners, and the scene was most pathetic, recalling the burial of the four hundred victims of the Ring Theatre fire forty years ago, in the same’ cemetery. COMMUNIST EVADES ARREST. PARIS, July 21. The Communist Deputy, Marty, was sentenced for engaging in seditious propaganda, and though he was in the Chamber in the afternoon, he eluded the police and has not been traced.