More on Yesterday's Gruesome Cartoon

The caricature of Polish violence against Ruthenians I found yesterday might be related to the following front-page item in the New York Times on April 13, 1908. STUDENT MURDERS GOVERNOR OF GALICIA; Count Andreas Potocki Victim of the Bitter Enmity Between Ruthenians and Poles. SHOT WHILE GIVING AUDIENCE Poles Crying for Vengeance – Great Excitement at Lemberg, Where Assassination Took Place. Lemberg was the German name for Lviv, and the assassin’s name was Myroslav Sichynskyi. According to Roman Lekhniuk at the Center for Urban History in Lviv, The assassination of Andrzej Potocki was the first case of political terror in Austria-Hungary. It shocked not only Lvivians, but the entire empire. Sichynskyi exacerbated national tensions in Galicia and its capital with his action by stating revenge for electoral abuses and other forms of discrimination against Galician Ukrainians as his main motive. Therefore it is not surprising that immediately on the day of the murder, anti-Ukrainian…