AMNESTY IN AUSTRIA.
SOCIALISTS AND NAZIS FREED. (United Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, December 24. The Vienna correspondent of “The Times” says that the Chancellor (Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg), in a Christmas broadcast, has announced an amnesty benefiting nearly all the Socialists sentenced after the struggle in 1964 to retain the rights they won after the war. Only 16 would remain in prison, he said. To them ;no mercy would be shown, because there was blood on their hands. The amnesty applies also to numbers who took part in the Nazi putsch. The amnesty is the best news Austria has had lor a long time, and current talk of reconciliation may gain an element of reality. There are still many prisoners serving police sentences, which is a source of grievance because of the lack of judicial control.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 64, 27 December 1935, Page 5
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