Austria

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 49, 14 October 1914, Page 5

Austria

VIENNA OVERCROWDED WITH REFUGEES. United Press '.Association. Vienna, October 12. Galician refugees in Bohemia are so numerous that the authorities are building a new town near Chotzek for 25,000. Budapest is compelled to aocommoJate 25.000 from the Carpathians, whence' the arrivals are increasing to ilarming proportions. ’ ■ ; J ITALIANS IN AUSTRIA. DEALT WITH SUMMARILY IN THE EVENT OF WAR. (Received 9.0 a.m.) Rome, October 13. Prince Hohenlohe circularised the heads of the police in Austria’s Italian provinces, stating that in the event of war with Italy all Italian subjects between eighteen and forty will be imprisoned in fortresses. Those above forty years of age, as well as women and children, will be ordered to leave the country within twelve hours. Those suspected of being connected with any anti-Austrian propaganda will be summarily tried, and if guilty will be shot. The Italian -subjects in Austria included in the list of the proscription will bo imprisoned in the fortresses. Those not included in the proscription, between eighteen and forty years, will be enrolled in regiments serving in Bohemia. ITALY THREATENED. Rome, October 18. ! Lo Messagoro states that Prince Hohenlohe, Governor of Trieste, has ordered the police to take the names of a thousand prominent citizens, including the Mayor, destined as hostages in the event of Italy declaring war against Austria. The Government office has printed x manifesto, announcing that the least manifestation in favor of Italy will be punished, the guilty shot without trial, and the Trieste deputies and seven citizens will be hanged. (Trieste is the most important seaport of Austria-Hungary and the chief trading town on the Adriatic, 370 miles by rail south-south-west ol Vienna." Trontiuo, the capital nl which is Trent (with a population of 30,000) was Italian from 1809 to ; ISI3. Trent is still, quite Italian in aspect, language, and habits, and ‘-bo r.'sto- Mb to Italv of it and the district (Trentino), with Trieste, is cue aim or tae irredentist agitation. Transylvania, formerly an Austrian principality, has since 1868 been an integral part of Hungary. It -is Galicoia and Rumania. The population, now about 2,800,000, consists of Rumanians (nearly 1,300,000, members of the Greek Church), Hungarians, and Szeklers, and Saxons or Germans. ini—>»»« —mmtmmm