TURMOIL IN AUSTRIA
Strikes and Riots
TROUBLE SPREADING TO OTHER TOWNS,
[Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Monday, 12.10 a.m.) BERNE, Jan. 19. The ‘‘Neue Freie Presse” states that a. strike movement is general throughout lower Austria and at Trieste and in the Trieste Valley. All the war industries in the neighbourhood of Vienna are shut down. There are 10,000 strikers at the Wienerneustadt locomotive works and munition factories. The Roethe aeroplane works at Lichten Roethe are closed. ‘‘Le Matin” states that the metal and transport workers form the principal body of the strikers. There is very serious rioting at Vienna, Gratz, and Salzburg. Over eighty stores, food and clothing shops and several restaurants at Vienna were pillaged. The police intervened, and many on both sides were injured. The garrison refused co march against the strikers. The whole of Bohemia is stated to he in commotion. Soldiers fired on the rioters at Prague and Pilsen.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 13791, 21 January 1918, Page 5
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