SPEEDY JUSTICE.

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

SPEEDY JUSTICE.

First Rebel Sentenced and Hanged in Three Hours. SCHUTZBUND RESISTANCE. (Received 1 p.m.) VIENNA, February 14. The Northern Railway Station was entirely razed by the artillery before the rebels could -be overcome. ihe battle in north-eastern Vienna was not ended with the capture of Floridsdorf, from which the garrison has been dri\en out. The rebels, whom women at the windows helped by cleaning their rifles and supplying cartridges, are taking up a new "line of defence at Kakran, three miles eastward, which the troops are now assaulting. The conquered area resembles a war zone. Three corpses lie on the roadway, which is strewn with electric tramway wires. The walls of Schlingerhof are riddled with huge holes by mountain-gun fire and projectiles. Though so badly wounded that he had to be carried before a court-martial, a military doctor declared that Karl Munichreiter, a member of the Schutzbund, was not seriously ill, and therefore could be tried. The Court thereupon sentenced him to be hanged as a rebel. The execution followed within three hours. He is the first Socialist prisoner to have been sentenced to death.

Troops stormed Saclisensof and arrested several hundred members of the Schutzbund and others who were retreating on the Laaerberg Hills, south of Vienna, where 2000 men dug themselves in. The Government has broadcast an offer to pay £35 a head for the missing rebel leaders.