The Archive · 1912

A Free Fight

Cow bells, motor-horns and toy trumpets swelled the din in Parliament, und a police inspector entered and ordered individual members of the Opposition The latter, to the number of " hundred, stood in the centre of the house, headed by Herrn. Apponyi, Zichy and Andrassy, and refused to leave. The police tried to force them to leave and a fight with fists followed. Legislators were carried out of the House kicking and struggling, and eventually fourteen left headed by Herr Apponyi, who promised to leave voluntarily if the police preceded him. The broken seats were replaced. the Ministerialists returned and the Minister of Finance submitted the estimates.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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