FOOD RIOTS AT SALZBURG.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14874, 24 September 1918, Page 5

FOOD RIOTS AT SALZBURG.

GENERAL PLUNDERING.

THE VIENNA EXPLOSION,

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association);

Amsterdam, Sept. 22.

In food riots, the strikers at Salzburg plundered the army commissariat, leading hotels, and provision shops, andr destroyed much property. They smashed the doors of-the Government palace. Gendarmes inside fired., and killedf

several

Government and municipal employees joined the strikers. -The garrison wafs powerless or unwilling to restore order-

Three hundred and eighty-fcwo werekilled and many badly injured by the explosion at Ollersdorf ammunition factory at Vienra.

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