RIOTS IN BUDA-PESTH
ALARMING SCENTS. MANY KILLED AND INJURED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 24, 10.20 p.m. Buda-Pesth, May 24. The city is in a state of siege. Sixty thousand people are demonstrating in the streets against the election of Count Tisza, the chief opponent of universal suffrage, to the Presidency of the Chamber. The exasperated working classes joined the mob with great determination, and wrecked scores of tram-cars, plundered pawnshops, stormed the asphalt works, dragged barrels into the streets and fired them, tore up the gas lamps and ignited the gas. There were constant collisions with the police, and the troops made bayonet charges. The mob dragged the Hussars from their horses. In order to prevent their windows being smashed, shopkeepers placarded them ■with the inscription, "Long live universal suffrage!" The theatres are closed, and no newspapers are being published. Fifteen persons have been killed in the rots, and several hundred injured.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 282, 25 May 1912, Page 5
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152RIOTS IN BUDA-PESTH Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 282, 25 May 1912, Page 5
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