VIENNA'S DAY OF PILLAGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17956, 5 December 1921, Page 7

VIENNA'S DAY OF PILLAGE.

4»— WEST END RANSACKED. 1 BRITISH OFFICIAL A VICTIM. 1 400 RIOTERS ARRESTED. By Telegraph—Press AHBo:iation— Copyright. ] A. and N.Z. VIENNA, Dec. 2Forty thousand workere partook in the j rioting in Vienna on Thursday. The outbreak was dangerously like an attempt at 1 economic revolution. ( The whole of Vienna's West End, con- 1 taining hotels, the largest stores, and ' restaurants, was sacked and pillaged, '{"aw damage was done to buildings in < the Ringstrasse, one of the most hand- ' some streets in the world. The city be- ' fame quieter in the evening. ' Four hundred arrests were effected. Among the places pillaged was the Bris- ' tol Hotel where English and American guests sought refuge in the room of Sir ' William Qoode, tho British representative ' on the Austrian section of the Reparation Commission. The plunderers broke open . boxes and stole the whole of Sir William's clothing. They threw a telephone ' and a slipper at Sir William, but both missiles missed him. The mob also raided two banks, smashing windows and furniture. Tdey stopped tramcars, and forced the better-class occupants to hand over furs and overcoata.