FRENZY AND FEAR IN VIENNA

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 143, 14 March 1938, Page 9

FRENZY AND FEAR IN VIENNA

Train? Are Packed With Refugees CITY ENTIRELY IN HANDS OF NAZIS (Received March 13, 7 p.m.) London, March 11. "The city to-night is a place of frenzy and fear,” states the Vienna correspondent of "The Times.” “Trains from Austria are packed with fleeing inhabitants. Within an hour of Dr. Inquart’s speech Storm Troopers were marching and everyone was wearing an armband. “An indescribable tumult, composed of thousands of voices shouting 'Heil Hitler!’ ‘Heil victory!’ "One people, one Reich!’ filled the air. This sound, while exhilarating to the Nazis, is threatening and nerve-wracking to other masses of people, who are sitting in their homes wondering what the morrow will bring.

“By 10 p.m. all police were withdrawn from the streets, and the city was entirely in the hands of the Nazis. The Nazi flag is flying over the historic Chancellery, where Metternich spun his tangled webs and the Vienna Congress met. “The Government Press Department is bereft of officials and is occupied by police, wearing swastikas. All the police who three hours previously were obeying the orders of the last Government, are wearing the swastika and giving the Hitler salute.”