RIOT IN THE DIET.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11655, 10 June 1912, Page 4

RIOT IN THE DIET.

EXTRAORDINARY POLITICAL METHODS. £By, Electrio Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Budii Pcsth, June S. > The Government did not prevent the ejected members returning, fearing that eiiieiriatogra pliers would exploit the. tussle with the police, and use the films' for electioneering purposes. Several Ministerialists rushed across the room and kicked Kovac's head, and his' body they belabored with their fists, riot realising that he. was shot" in the head.' He was removed unconscious. Count Tisza/unperturbed, hastened to the gallery to convince his wife that: ho was '-unhurt,' arid resumed the:sitting. The ''Ministerialists adopted eight hundred,- clauses of the new Hungarian Civil Code in; a quarter of an hour. • Kovac is the son of a small Jewish landowner, who made ta large fortune on the Stock Exchange, which he and was tfeateiied with bankruptcy. The bullet has been extracted, < but there is slight hope of his livings 'He inquired for' Count Tisza's condition, and' learning, he was uninjured, said: "Now I can die'in peace; I shan't cross the border a murderer." Received June 10, at 9.30 a.m. Buda Pesth, June 9. . Kovacs denied'aiiy intention of killing Tisza, and. said lie:-only desired to frighten hirn ; into-a change of i>oliey.