“ There is no such thing, there has never been any such thing as Austrian culture. What there was, and still remains of culture properly so-called in Austria, is not Austrian, but Latin or Slavonic, and therefore friendly, and certain to make common cause with us as soon as it has been freed from the grip of the dynastic constabulary of the Hapsburgs. ”

“ Five Czech coal miners in Most, Bohemia, were each sentenced to 18 months at hard labor for refusing to go down the shaft on May 22nd.
Unusually late frosts damaged most seriously this year’s crops in Bohemia. The Prague papers state that frosts came as late as the first days of June. In Germany which lies north of Bohemia the damage was even more severe. ”