Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1920 — SQUATTERS IN AUSTRIAN PARK Take Possession of Meadows Where Royal Stag and Boar Once Fattened. [ARTICLE]

SQUATTERS IN AUSTRIAN PARK Take Possession of Meadows Where Royal Stag and Boar Once Fattened.

Vienna. —Squatters have taken possession of the famous Lainz-Tiergar-ten on the outskirts of Vienna, and where once the royal stags and wild boars fattened on rich meadows and under splendid oaks, huts are being erected and ground broken for crops. Some fiionths ago a group of men. mostly war invalids, formally demanded this park from the government giving notice that if their demands were not met within a certain period they would take possession. The demand was Ignored by the authorities, so when the period expired several hundred men marched quietly to the entrance and demanded admission. The keepers swung open the gates and the men entered and staked out their claims, placing 'a model hut in one of the open grassed spaces as a symbol of possession. It is said 1,700 families will take up claims.