RECRUITING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 204, 30 August 1933, Page 7

RECRUITING.

AUSTRIAN FORCE. GERMANY OBJECTS. Garrisons Strengthened to Stave Off Terrorists. POWERS GIVE SANCTION. iUnited P.A.-ElectricTelegraph— Copyright) (Received 12 noon.) LONDON, August 29. Three hundred specially trained gendarmes are reinforcing the local forces patrolling the Anstro-Gcrman frontier, owing to the large number of Austrian Nazis escaping by secret mountain paths to Germany. A British official wireless message states that an agreement will probably bo concluded within a few days embodying the conditions in which the British, French and Italian Governments consent to the inquest by the Austrian Government for permission to raise, for a year, a special auxiliary force of 8000 men. The Governments of the Little Entente Powers, it is understood, have been consulted and have agreed. The Austrian request arises as the result of the tension existing on the AustroGerman frontier. By the terms of the St. Germain Treaty, an Austrian Army of 30,000 men is allowed, but it has never been up to full strength. Derogation from the treaty consists in the enlistment of recruits for a new force on short service instead of for the normal 12-year period. Britain has repudiated the German allegation that it constitutes conscription. The "Daily Mail" states that the Austrian garrisons arc being strengthened throughout the Tyrolean frontier. Sharpshooters have been posted at various points and auxiliary police are being enrolled. The Minister of Defence, Dr. Carl Vaugoin, announces what may be regarded as the reintroduction of conscription by training relays of 8000 to 10,000 youths earti six months with the regular forces. Italy's Help to Austria. Austrian Socialists condemn the recruitment of auxiliaries and arc summoning protest meetings. While the Italian Foreign Office describes as purest guesswork the reports published abroad with reference to Signer Mussolini's plans to help Austria, it admits that the problems are under consideration. The diplomatic correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that it is not and cannot be denied that certain practical conclusions have been reached as the outcome of conversations between Signor Mussolini and Dr. Dollfuss. These are viewed sympathetically both in French and British circles. The Italian view is that Austria, and in a lesser degree Hungary, must find new preferential markets in which to deal with each other and with Italy. Nazis throughout Austria are openly painting swastikas on buildings and churches, and are threatening members of the Cabinet, in spite of repeated lines and imprisonment.