NAZI ACTIVITIES

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 144, 21 June 1933, Page 9

NAZI ACTIVITIES

PROHIBITED IN AUSTRIA MINISTER'S BROADCAST VIENNA, June 19. The Minister of Justice, Heir Schuschnigg, in a broadcast announcement after a Cabinet meeting, said that Cabinet had decided to prohibit all Nazi activities in Austria; tho wearing of badges and emblems of membership would be illegal. Ho added that the Government had done everything to avoid extremism and bloodshed, and was anxious for good relations with Germany, but recent events, had necessitated immediate and strong action to maintain law and order. Major foy, Minister of Public Security, stated that Nazis had been responsible for all the recent outrages, including the attempt at the sabotage at the Kvema power station. The opening of the sluices of the huge resoryoir, if it had succeeded, wrtuld havo inundated six townships and deprived tho Salzburg district of electricity. Apart from defiant utterances by Nazi leaders, there is a chorus of approval at Cabinet's decision to outlaw the Nazi,party. A typical Nazi defiance of the order is the cry of tho party headquarters at • Graz: "We accept with delight the new ordinance, which will lead to a mighty rise of the Nazis. "We are ready to dio any moment for a great Germany." ■ Another'loader states: "The Government has feet a fuse to a powder magazine. The result will be the creation of a body of Austrian irredentists."