AMNESTY OFFER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 39, 15 February 1934, Page 7

AMNESTY OFFER.

DOLLFUSS SPEAKS. Pax-don for Rebels Who Report To Authorities. APPEAL TO WOMEN. [United r.A.-Electric Telegraph-Copyright) (Received 2 p.m.) VIENNA, February 14. Firing is ceasing and life in the eon Ire of the town is almost normal. Dr. Dollfuss, broadcasting, declared an amnesty would be given all who immediately cease hostilities and present themselves to the authorities to-morrow. The Government earlier broadcast appeals to women with husbands fighting to urge them to yield their arms to" the police, since a house to house search would be begun, rendering further resistance useless. The Socialists still hold positions in Ottakring, Lobau Island, Semmering, Meidling, Stadlau and Bisanbcrg. The hostilities at Kagran resulted in the burning down of the Goethcshaus, a magnificent new municipal building. Kolman Walliss, a revolutionary leader, has taken to the woods with 400 volunteers equipped with machine-guns. Doctors, ambulances and Government troops are pursuing them. A final attack on all unsurrendered Socialist positions will be launched at dawn. Weissel, commandant of the lloridsdorf Fire Brigade, which fiercely resisted tho Government troops, has been sentenced to death on charges of attacking the District Court and fatally machinesunning two and wounding many soldiers.

The Jewish Ex-Soldiers' Union, numbering 17,000 members, has aligned itself with tho Government forces. A Nazi aeroplane flew over Vienna distributing anti-Semitic proclamations.