28 OCTOBER 1916, Page 2

Count Stiirgkh, the Austrian Premier, was shot dead in Vienna

last Saturday. The assassin was Dr. Friedrich Adler, a Vienna journalist, who-is a son of Dr. Victor Adler, the well-known Deputy and founder of the• Austrian Socialist Party. Dr. Friedrich Adler is said to have committed the murder as a protest against the refusal of the Government to convoke the Austrian iteichsrath since the beginning of the war. Count Stiirgkh was not a distin- guished figure in Austrian politics. He merely held the fort of autocratic rule for the purposes of the war. It cannot be said that so far there have been any noteworthy results from theussassination.