HUNGARIAN RIOTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 10 June 1912, Page 5

HUNGARIAN RIOTS.

SCENES IN THE CHAMBER

KOVACA STILL ALIVE

BUDA-PESTH, June 8. Violent scenes have been resumed in the Chamber. Members ejected at the previous sitting found their way into the Chamber, but the police removed them.

Count Tisza opened the sitting, but unexpelled Oppositionists assailed him with angry shrieks. After noting the disturbers he suspended the sitting. Meanwhile Kovaca, from the press gallery, shouted., "There are still Oppositionists in the Chamber," and fired at Tisza, then shot himself dangerously.

The Government did not prevent the ejected members returning, fearing that the cinematograph would exploit a tussle with the police and use the films for electioneering purposes.

Several Ministerialists rushed and kicked Kovaca's head, and body, and belabored him with their fistSj not realising that he had been shot in the head. He was removed unconscious.

Count Tisza remained unperturbed, and hastened to the gallery to convince his wife-that he was unhurt.

At the resumed sitting the Ministerialists adopted 800 clauses of the new Hungarian civil code in a quarter of an hour.

Kovaca was the son of a small Jewish landowner, and made a large fortune on the Stock Exchange, which, he squandered. He was threatened by bankruptcy. The ballet has been extracted, and there is a slight hope of his living. He enquired as to Count Tisza's condition, and hearing that he was uninjured said, "Now I can die in peace. I shan't cross the border a murderer."