AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, 21 January 1918, Page 5

AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS.

SERIOUS STRIKES IN AUSTRIA.

ROBBERY & RIOTING GENERAL,

BERNE, January 19.

The "Ncuo Freis Presse"

states

that a strike movement is general throughout Lower Austria, Trieste and the Trieste Valley. All the war industries in Vienna and the neighbourhood are shut, and there are ton thousand strikers in the Wienerneustadt loco-

motive and munitions factories. The Eoeth aeroplane works at Lichtenwraoth have been closed. PARIS, January 19.

"Le Matin" states that the metal

and transport workers form the principal body of the strikers, and there

is very serious rioting at Vienna. Gratza, and Salzburg, ver eighty stores, food and clothing shops, and several restaurants at Vienna were pillaged. The police intervened and many of both sides were injured. The garrison; refused to march against the strikers. The whole of Bohemia is in a state of commotion. The soldiers fired on the' rioters at Prague and Pilsen. j

ATJSTEO-GEEMANY' S INTERNAL MENACE.

BUMOtTRED DESERTION OF 25,000

SOLDIERS

NEW YORK, January 19

The United Press Petrograd correspondent states that wholesale disaffeetions are spreading through the Austro-Oerman army. Entire Austrian companies have been shot for sympathising with Russian Socialism. Twenty-five thousand armed Germans' have joined the fast-growing numbe* of deserters. Hindenburg is strenuous"* ly endeavouring to put down the insubordination. He ordered 1000 men to' be shot for refusing to obey their officers.