TROOP MOVEMENTS IN AUSTRIA

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 162, 5 April 1938, Page 11

TROOP MOVEMENTS IN AUSTRIA

Considerable Activity ' MANOEUVRES NEAR • CZECH FRONTIER By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received April 4, 7.50 p.m.) London, April 4. Considerable troop movements were noticeable in northern Austria at the week-end, says the Vienna correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph.” An infantry division, artillery units and tanks moved in the neighbourhood of the Czechoslovak frontier. I Simultaneously Vienna was ringed by anti-aircraft guns.

AUSTRIAN UNION

German Press Welcomes British Recognition Berlin, April 3. The Press welcomes the British recognition of the anschluss between Germany and Austria as proof of a new realistic policy. Alternatively it suggests that Britain recognises that conditions in Austria were a danger point in Europe the elimination of which has relieved her of anxiety.’

PLEBISCITE VOTING

Germans And Austrians In Australia Sydney, April 4. More than 200 German and Austrian citizens to-day will sail out pf the port In the German steamer Neckar and beyond the three-mile limit will record their votes in the plebiscite for Austrian and German union. Similar arrangements have been made in other parts of Australia.

CHOICE FOR BRITAIN

Germany’s Friendship Or Possession Of Colonies London, April 3. Lord Londonderry, in his book, “Ourselves and Germany,” recalling his unofficial visit to Herr Hitler in 1936, says Herr Hitler told him that perhaps the time would come when England would have to consider whether active friendship to Germany was more important than the posses-, sion of a couple of colonies which were of no great value to the British Empire.

HUNGARY’S CALM

Regent’s Warning To Trouble-makers Budapest, April 3. The Regent, Admiral Horthy, in a broadcast speech, warned troublemakers against attempting to exploit uneasiness due to the Austro-German union, and added that nothing had happened to disturb Hungary’s calm. On the contrary, two friends of the country had become united, as sooner or later was inevitable.