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 STIRRING TIMES IN AUSTRIA

Vienna; there were three or four days of furious rioting in Prague, followed by the establishing there of martial law; the Jews and Germans were harried and plundered, and their houses destroyed ; in other Bohemian towns there was rioting in some cases the Germans being the rioters, in others the Czechs and in all cases the Jew had to roast, no matter which side he was on. We are well along in De cember now ; 1 the new Minister- President has not been able to patch up a peace among the warring factions of the parliament, therefore there is no use in calling it together again for the present ; public opinion believes that parliamentary government and the Constitution are actually threatened with ex tinction, and that the permanency of the monarchy itself is a not absolutely certain thing!

Yes, the Lex Falkenhayn was a great invention, and did what was claimed for it it got the govern ment out of the frying-pan.

1 It is the Qth. M. T.

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