AUSTRIAN UPHEAVAL

Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1927, Page 2

AUSTRIAN UPHEAVAL

(Australian it N.Z. Cable Association.) STRIKES CALLED OFF. VIENNA. July is. Railway, postal, telegraph and telephone services were reopened a.I midnight. Tin' Trade Unions have decided to call off the strike in order to bring the dispute hack to a Parliamentary footing, The Unions’ statement claims the general strike was rallied out without n hitch, showing the power of the Socialists.

However, the 'Unions’ change of front, following on a noonday interview with the Premier II w Dr Seipel. who emphatically rejected the Socialists’ terms, conveys its own moral.

The fashionable quarters of the city have resumed their usual light-heart-edness. and even gaiety. Smartly gowned women and well dressed men are promenading as though nothing had happened. The polite, however, still carry carbines, and the l soldiers wear steel he!-

Tlic burned out shell of the Palace of Justice will long remain a reminder of “Red Friday. ’’

Among the treasures destroyed was Austria’s centuries oTd Doomsday Book. The Register of the Marriages and Divorces was among the tinreplaceahle legal records lost. The newspapers are reappearing and the Bourse has reopened. There have been three hundred arrests, largely of Communists, including the German Communist loader. Pieck, whose arrival was cabled oil the lltli.

ORIGIN OF REVOLT. The Times Vienna correspondent states: The Austrian Government is in possession of complete proof that flic revolt was planned by foreigners, instructed from Mosc ow. Forty Communists. who are believed to have constituted -the Reolutiomary Council, were arrested at the offices of the newspaper Reote Fane, where they were in consultation. The majority of these Communists are foreigners. Severals Russians crossed the frontier with forged passports. One of them is charged with setting fire to the Law Courts. Conditions in Vienna are now practically normal T,ON DON. July 19. The Exchange Agency’s Vienna correspondent reports that the Italian Minister at Vienna has protested against the formation of the Armed Defence Corps, which is contrary to tlm Peace Treaty.