Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-04-29 | Page 2 | Serious Rioting Occurs at Laibach

! SERIOUS RIOTING OCCURSATLAIBACH AMSTERDAM, April 29 Serious anti -German demonstrations have occurred oc-curred at Laibach. Crowds of Slovenes, according to Vienna newspapers, almost al-most destroyed the German club and smashed the windows of German stores and safes. Troops were called out, but the dem onstrants continued to throng the streets singing antl -German songs and cheering for the Entente. An Exchange Telegraph dispatch received re-ceived in London Saturday from The Hague reported that the papal nuncio in Vienna at the request of the Austrian Aus-trian government, had begun an inquiry in-quiry into charges that the archbishop archbis-hop of Laibach had taken the leadership leader-ship of the southern Slav movement, the aims of which were said to constitute consti-tute high treason. A large portion of the demonstrants the southern Slav.-, are Serbians who desire separation from Austria. oo