AUSTRIAN UPHEAVAL

Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1927, Page 2

AUSTRIAN UPHEAVAL

(Australian ifc N.Z. Cable Association.)

VIENNA RISING. LONDON, July 20. The Riga correspondent of “The Times” reports that the Soviet ors refusing to believe that the Ai- i enna riots have been suppressed, are issuing fiery messages of encouragement to their revolutionary comrades in Austria, and also manifestoes abroad urging the workers to follow up the good beginning in Vienna, and to destroy the bourgeoisie. They declare that the general .strike is a sharp weapon only if it is directed by genuine revolutionaries. They declare that Austrain workers must establish Sot iet s in every district and that Dr. Seipel s government must lx? destroyed, and a Workman's government established The Soviet Press announces that the South Chinese Communists have deeided to proceed secretly, because tlieir —^ lawful existence, since there has been a betrayal of their cause by tlie Hankow Government, has become impossible.

ONE OF THE OLD RESTATE. LONDON, July 20. The ex-Grand Duke Nicholas, of Russia, is seriously ill at his Chateau near Paris.

VICTIAIS OF RIOTS. ’ AH ENNA. July 20. < There were impressive scenes at the cemetery at the joint funeral of fiftyseven victims of the riots. There were thousands of mourners, and tDe scene was most pathetic, recalling the burial of the four hundred victims of tlie Ring Theatre fire forty years ago in the same cemetery.