AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 October 1916, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

REVOLT IN VIENNA,

WHOLESALE ARRESTS -MADE. CA,USE OF PREMIER'S MURDER.

Received Oct. 23, 7 p.m. Rome, Oct. 25. firave riots in Vienna followed the murder of tlie Premier, Count Stuergkh, and the police and troops were unable to stem the revolt. Wholesale arrests nf Polish, Bohemian, and Croatian leaders have commenced, the authorities believing that the assassination of Count Stwrgkh is part of a great plot against the Government. The (jiormle d'ltalia states that Adler is neither an anarchist 1101 a pariah. He acted from political motives, either to avenge the treatment of Bohemians, or as a protest against tlie fatal, policy which is conducting the Empire to ruin.

AUSTRIAN PREMIER'S MURDER. SEfiiOCS COXSEQUEXCES WWBABLE. Amsterdam, uctouer 22. The death of Count rttuergklis lias caused a lmge sensation hi AustroHungary. Tlie Emperor Franz Josef is shocked. Public opinion in Berlin fears that tlie murder may lead to very serious consequences. It is interpreted as significant of Austria's state of mind.

Count Stuergkhs was a bureaucrat, a pvonounced clerical, and strong opponent of the extension of tlic suffrage. The motives of the assassins are the subject of various conjectures. War lias paralysed all civil liberty in Austria, and involved the country in frightful losses of men, many inconveniences, and some suffering.

When the shots were fired a number of German officers with drawn swords rushed on Stucrgkh's assailant, who did not resist, and was handed to the police. He said: "I will account for this before the court." He is the publisher of one Socialist newspaper, editor of another, and secretary of the Social Democratic IParty. The Wiener Allegmeine Tageblatt states that Count Sturegkhs was dining in -a hotel in company with Baron Aehrentlial, brother of the iormcr Foreign Minister. His assailant, Dr. Friedrich Adler, is a son of a Reichstag deputy. Dr. Adler was seated three tables away. He suddenly jumped up and moved to Stuergkhs' table and ifired. Baron Aehrentlial, who was hit in the foot' by one shot,: caught Stnergkiis as he fell. His assailant has long been considered eccentric and latterly opposed the majority of the Socialist Party.

A REMARKABLE STOAY.

AUSTRIAN INTRIGUE REVEALED. I STUEROKH'S RISE AND DOWN! ALL. Received Oct. 23, 11.45 p.n. London, Oct. 23. Count Stuergkli was an impecunious £tyrian nobleman of limited intelligence. He owed his political position to a man named Singer, the son of a provincial liablii, who .was attached to the Austrian Premier's oflice and has controlled the secret press fund since IWO4. Singer used the fund to overthrow Ave successive Premier.:, until he was regarded as the most influential personage in politics. About Singer secured the directorship of the Landed Credit Bank, at a salary of ten thousand a yeai, with the opportunity of making a huge fortune by investments. Thereupon he arlanged with his friends that Stuergkli should become a Minister, and, later on, Premier. Stuerg l mannged to hold his office, despite many vicissitudes, including a long period of blindness.

Private information received in London last week stated that Singer wa\ using bis influence to destroy Stuergkli as he had destroyed other Premiers, on the ground that the Reichsrath should be convoked.

THE MURDERER INSANE. Received Oct. 23. 11.43 p.m. New York, Oct. 2-3. Berlin despatches assert that Adler is insane, and point out that his sister lias been an inmate of an asylum for a decade. \ AN OFFICIAL REPORT. Amsterdam, October 21. A German' communique says:— The Russians had severe losses west of the Stokhod. Fighting continued in the woods and mountains, amid falling snow and frost.

The Roumanians are suffering heavily, and the fighting in the Dobrudja has developed in our favor. We forced our way at several points into the enemy's main positions south *of Rasova. Paris, October 21. A Berlin communique says:—The English attacks between Le Sars and Eaucourt fail™, &nd the FrwuV. attacks on t'ic fiai'.tv IJancourt roid broke down. Our aerial squadron brought down twelve enemy machines, and aerial attacks on the railway stations and munition depots behind th-j enemy front brought good results.

The Su'-iiians had severe josses west of StoldioJ. Fighting cjntiniud in tile wooes and mountain?, amid snowfalls ami frost. The Rou'.-v.nians are suffering heavily, and the fighting mi the 9o!>n;oja has develop."! in our favor. We forced our way at several points in the enemy's main positions south of Rasova.