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Show , WSTRIANS GROW If RIOTOUS AS FOOD j I BECOMES SCARCE i a j c LONDON. Jan. IS. Serious strikes, si J accompanied by rioting, have .taken place h Vienna and other cities throughout jlustria, according to news agency telegrams tele-grams to Zurich and other points in fwitserland. i The troubles, it is asserted, art due to i Mi.e prolongation of the peace negotia-i negotia-i "Ions at Brest-Hitovsk, the continuation 1 k the reduced brend rations one-half Iihe former allotment and police measures mea-sures against meetings of tlie workers, j cj a peace demonsiration at Vienna on Tuesday ni?ht. ended in a riot, during I (.i.iiich, according to an Exchange Telo- draph dispatch, food shops were looted, j k wireless press dispatch from Berne ( ays strikes broke qui on Monday In t'ac-i t'ac-i Jnries in Vienna, Bratz. Bninri, JAnz and I 'jener-Xeustadt, the walkouts resulting i in rioting which necessitated vigorous iiolico action. On Tuesday the, it umber f strikers increased and ti-ere were ivmerous conilicls with the poliee. - Since Wednesday, ihv. dispatches state, io Avisirian papers have reached Switzer-i Switzer-i nd. It appears thai, the Austrian autnori-ies autnori-ies are anxious regarding the situation 1 1. Vrasue, Bohemia, us rhe c:vil governor gov-ernor has been replaced by a military ;overnor. ! The Vienna correspondent o; the Mn-iir) Mn-iir) Neuesie Xaehvi'-luen says that re-j'.m-ls of in Austrian cabinet cri-is arc ei! founded. Dr. von Seydler. tin; pi e-jiiier, e-jiiier, i;; 1 'poped in it only by t lie Czechs -nd 'the suuth Slavs, it is assrteil, but )so bv tiK- Socialists, who, like the rest, ire dialing under the food difficulties, 'vl'ile the Cermau 'deputies are hostile ,' ;::g to the premier's alleged eak at- lti:do toward t;ie Czerlis and south Slavs. |