BOHEMIANS MAKE A STAND.
DEMAND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL ASSEMBLY. RIOTS YX THB CAPITAL ANI) CHIEF J TOWNS. (Australian ana N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received June 21, 1.10 p.m.) PARTS, June 20. Le Matin states there has been revolutionary demonstrations at Prague for some days. The workmen's committee, representing every i\octary m the city, issued a manifesto, demanding a constitutional Assembly for Czechs on a basis of universal suffrage, the purpose being the founding of an independent Czech state. Tens of thousands of the inhabitants assembled at Johna's . monument and sang a. Slav hymn, adding the words, "Russia and France are with us." i Tli© demonstrators afterwards, appeared ! opposite the German Club. Gendarme? ; charged the" demonstrators, and many iwere -wounded. _ There were similar riots m the principal WBohemian towns.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14330, 21 June 1917, Page 6
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