SUFFRAGETTE RIOTS
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BUDAPEST IN STATE OF SIEGE POLICE AND SOLDIERS ACTIVE. FIFTEEN KILLED, MANY WOUNDED. (Received Last Night, 10.20 o'clock. BUDAPEST, May 24. The city-is in a state of siege. " There are 60,000 people demonstrating in the streets. '''■ The election of Count Tisza, the chief opponent of universal suffrage, to the Presidency of the Chamber, has , exasperated' tihe working .©lasses. The mob, with great determination, I wrecked scores of tramcars, plundered pawnshops, stormed asphalt works, and dragged the barrels of tar into the [■streets and set fire to them. They tore ' : up'.tfae-gas' the'gas. collision witfr the* bayonet charges. ;^. HussftrjJ "from \ their horses.
In order to prevent their windows from being Slashed, the shopkeepers placarded them with inscriptions 'if "Long live universal suffrage.". The theatres are closed; and no newspapers are published. Fifteen persons were killed, and several hundred injured.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10643, 25 May 1912, Page 5
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146SUFFRAGETTE RIOTS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10643, 25 May 1912, Page 5
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