The Archive · 1911

The Food Riots in Vienna

DISORDERLY SCENES IN THE REICHSRATH

London, Oct. 6.

Telegrams from Vienna state that the Minister of Justice, Dr. von Hochenburger, has been' attacked in the Lower House of the Reichsrath for the severe sentences on the i rested in the food riots at Vienna of September 18 and 19.

The attack provoked a heated scene, during which a man in the gallery fired five shots at the mit benches, on which were seated Dr. von Hochenburger and Count Sturgkh, the Minister of Edudation.

Nobody was hit. The man was arrested and the House adjourned in great disorder.—Reuter.

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