THE AUSTRO-GERMAN SITUATION.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20868, 30 May 1933, Page 9

THE AUSTRO-GERMAN SITUATION.

UNUSUAL STEPS TAKEN. VIENNA, May 28. Germany's visa fee is described in the Vienna press as a political and economic battle in an unparalleled form. The Austrian Minister at Berlin has left to report to the Government. It is expected that retaliatory measures will include similar visa fees for Austrians travelling in Germany, and also prohibitive tariffs on German goods. LOSS OF TOURISTS. ALARM IN VIENNA. (Received May 29, 9.20 p.m.) VIENNA, May 29. The Austrian press is alarmed at the action of the German Government in barring German tourists from going to Austria. The tourist industry, they claim, is vital to the economic being of Austria, and practically depends on German visitors. The newspapers, however, blame Dr. E. Dolfuss (Austrian Chancellor). UNIVERSITY RIOT. TROUBLE AT VIENNA. VIENNA, May 28. Violating the Vienna University's medieval privilege, 200 police, under Government orders, entered the building with drawn truncheons and ended a Nazi student riot against Dr. E. Dolfuss (Chancellor) and the Minister for Justice, Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, The occasion was a Catholic students' memorial demonstration in honour of Leo Schlageter, who was shot by the French for sabotage in the Ruhr in 1923. The Nazis, resenting the "outsiders" paying homage to their own "martyr," drove away Dr. Dolfuss and Dr. Schuschnigg and severely handled the Catholic students. When the police arrived the Nazis barricaded themselves and threw chairs, inkpots, and books at the police, who quelled the disturbance by arresting some and dispersing the remainder. A MEMORIAL PARADE. DUSSELDORF DEMONSTRATION. DUSSELDORF, May 28. Three hundred thousand Brown Shirts and Stahlhelms, including 70,000 youngsters marched to the foot of the Schlageter Memorial, as a climax to the commemoration of Leo Schlageter's death, to hear Capt. von Goering speak. He described Schlageter as the "last soldier of the World War and the first soldier of the third Reich, who died defending his country's honour and peace."

AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR RECALLED. VIENNA, May 28. The Government has recalled its Ambassador from Berlin.