Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-23 | Page 1 | Teuton Rule in Bohemia Declared at Hand

T T N R RULE lf I IN 8 I ClAR AT HAND HAN Country Divided Into 12 Districts to Reduce Czech Representation in Parliament By Associated Press W WASHINGTON i May ray 22 2 V V Division of Bohemia into twelve districts with advantages ill in the electoral domain given to the German minority in each so as to reduce the Czech representation in parliament is provided in a a. ministerial ministerial minis minis- decree issued at Vienna An official dispatch toda today from France says this effort to dismember and the Czech state caused the recent serious rioting at Ostrau Pilsen and other places which resulted in the tho proclaim proclaiming ng of or martial law and the imprisonment of or perSons persons persons per per- sons sons- ll By increasing the German representation I tation from Bohemia at the expense of oC tire the Czechs the Austrian government government govern govern- government ment in the opinion here beret hopes to regain re rc- rc- rc gain ain at the opening of or parliament next June 19 the majority which it lost some months ago through h the coalition of or all elements clements in position led Jed by b- bythe bythe the Czechs This adhesion of opponents opponents caused Emperor Charles to order parliament dissolved earl early in the pres present present present I ent year MINISTERIAL DECREE The law bulletin of or the Austrian empire says the dispatch today I from France published the ministerial ministerial ministerial rial decree according to which the district district dis dis- district governments which were claimed for so long lonh by the Germans are established es es- es in Bohemia This decree is undoubtedly a policy policy pol pot icy of or repression the first act of or which tends to dismember Bohemia by granting to the German elements clements the guarantees which the they claim GERMAN MINORITY The plan irlan aims at creating in each district a German Gennan minority and to I grant to this minority however small it may be considerable advantages In Inthe Inthe inthe the administrative and electoral domains do do- mains This method IB is meant to brin bring about a considerable increase In the number of German Gennan deputies In the diet at the lie expense of the Czechs Czech who until now held a majority of or the scats seats It is clear that this Iris device elce of or the pan Germans is la bound to arouse the tile most violent opposition on the tho part of or orthe the Czechs A dispatch reprinted in all the German newspapers calls attention attention attention at at- already to the tile fact that martial martial martial mar mar- law Jaw has been proclaimed in several sev sev- eral crat districts of Bohemia because in certain regions serious riots have occurred occurred occurred oc oc- oc- oc about Ostrau Pilsen and andI I