STRENGTH OF THE MOVEMENT.

Shannon News, 19 July 1927, Page 1

STRENGTH OF THE MOVEMENT.

AGITATION FOR A COALITION GOVERNMENT.

MANY OUTRAGES DURING PERIOD OF MOB MADNESS.

(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.)' LONDON, July 17.

The Austrian Legation in Berlin announces that the leaders of the Vienna union's and the Socialist Party have secured control of’the revolutionary movement and ordered the resignation of Dr. Seipel, Premier, and M. Schoglier, Chief of Police, and are pressing for the formation of a Coalition Government. Refugees from Vienna state that, in addition to the offices of the Reichspost and other newspapers, many residences were gutted. The hospitals were crowded with wounded. The Government has ordered trustworthy Tyrolese troops to Vienna, in view of a report that workers have secured arms from the arsenal.

An eye-witness, telegraphing to the newspaper Weekly Dispatch, from Bratislava, describes the frightful brutality of the Red terrorists in Vienna when they forced an entrance to ttye City Hall and the police station after the defenders’ ammunition was exhausted. They murdered two gendarmes, hanged a third to a lamp post, and gauged the eyes out of the commandant, whom they slashed to death with his own sword. Reinforcements arrived and cut down the hanging gendarme, but he died later. '

The mob then attacked an ambulance in which four gendarmes lay, and despite their wounds they were subjected to ! further atrocities, being horribly mangled. The rioters fatally stabbed the horses of wounded police, which resulted in scenes like bull-fights. They hooted derisively as the portraits of the Emperors, in the windows of the Ministry of Justice, were smashed; and the statue of Francis Joseph was carried away in fragments as souvenirs. The Socialist. Mayor (Dr. Seitz) called a general strike after Dr. Seipel refused to dismiss M. Schoglier, Chief of Police. The Mayor, as governor of Viena province, alone has authority to call out troops to the assistance of the police, and this he refused to do until after the strike. Now he is claiming credit for restoring order. The general impression is that the appearance of the troops in the first instance would have prevented bloodshed.