PRICE OF FOOD.
SERIOUS RIOTS IN VIENNA. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) ' Vienna, September iB. A Socialist demonstration was made on Sunday as a protest against dear food. Fifty thousand marched in tho procession/ Violent speeches were delivered, demanding the importation of foreign meat and the reduction of tho cost of living. Tho proceedings culminated in noting. Innumerable windows were smashed, including those of the Law Courts. Traracars were also wrecked. ■The police and soldiery were stoned and barricades were erected. Furniture from restaurants and schools was piled up in the streets and set fire to. ~ 1 , ... Tho Dragoons charged and dispersed the crowd., . Towards evening the-noting was renewed in tho workmen’s quarter, in tho Ottakring .districts. Troops firect, killing three, .and wounding four severely. Eight were slightly wounded. A hundred and seventy were arrested.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 29, 19 September 1911, Page 5
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136PRICE OF FOOD. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 29, 19 September 1911, Page 5
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