After the news of the Warsaw battle's conclusion spread, the whole of Europe was in an uproar. Newspapers were scrambling to allocate space for this news.
Prior to this, the Prussian Army had achieved the "Great Victory of Warsaw," and the public, unaware of the details, always assumed the Prussian Army was prevailing in the Warsaw region. Such a stunning turn of events was indeed hard to accept.
Especially for the speculators who had purchased the Prusso-Polish Federation's war bonds, it was even harder to face this harsh reality.
Protesters had already appeared on the streets of London, and the stock exchange was surrounded by layers of enraged people, with no telling how many layers there were in between.
"We've been cheated," they naturally demanded justice. Only a small portion of these people had bought in from the start; most had been later lured into buying at high prices.
