10 DECEMBER 1921, Page 3

The Bolshevik element in Vienna had been kept under control

so successfully until last week that its existence was almost forgotten. On Thursday, December let, however, it contrived to promote a violent riot in Vienna's West End, where the great hotels, the restaurants and the shops were plundered by a mob of roughs. Sir William Goode, who represents Great Britain on the Reparations Commission in Austria, was robbed of all his belongings. The ostensible cause of the riots was a strike against the increase in the cost of living. It is to be regretted that the Allies cannot agree to do anything for the restoration of Austrian credit and Austrian industry. Many admirable plans, and especially the Ter Meulen scheme, have been put forward, but none has been put into operation.