The salaries of the persons employed by the new bureaucracy and the wages of the workmen were raised so enormously that there could be no doubt as to the probability of a speedy bankruptcy of the State. A prison warder was paid wages amounting to about 30,000 crowns a year. The Exchequer was soon empty; and there was a shortage of the means of payment. At this juncture Julius Lengyel, People’s Commissioner for Finance, declared to a meeting of the ‘trustees’ (_Vertrauensmänner_) of the officials of the bank of issue that ‘there are excellent foreign and native forgers able to make perfect counterfeits of the Austro-Hungarian banknotes.’ The services of these ‘excellent forgers’ were actually requisitioned; and they made an enormous number of forged Austro-Hungarian banknotes, of 200, 25 and 2 crowns respectively. Thus the workers’ delight at the rise of wages became converted into bitter disappointment, for they were paid in forged notes which possessed a very trifling purchasing value. The country folk refused to have anything to do with money forged under the ægis of ‘authorities’ whose term of power was so problematical, and in consequence ceased to supply the capital with food. [Illustration: 1. LEOPOLD RADO _alias_ ROTH. ] [Illustration: 3. ERNEST BAUMGARTEN. ] [Illustration: 2. OTTO KORVIN _alias_ KLEIN. ] [Illustration: 4. WILLIAM AUSCH. ] (_For an account of these Terrorists, see the_ APPENDIX.) Meanwhile Terror was working at high pressure, not sparing even the better-disposed among the working classes. Its appointed instruments—the Detective Department of the Ministry of the Interior, with the bloodthirsty Otto Korvin-Klein at its head, the Revolutionary Tribunals, and the Political ‘Terror Troops’—never for a single moment lapsed from the level of their respective callings.