SPORADIC ATTACKS
SUPPRESSION OF NAZIS
INCIDENTS IN PROVINCES
. ' (Eeceived July 27, 11 a.m.) ;-■ VIENNA, July 26. The Heimwehr, killing three and capturing twenty-five, drove off Nazis who were attempting to capture the concentration camp at Graz in order to liberate prisoners. ■ .itoports state that the provinces aro quiet, and order has been restored except in Styria, where the insurrection is steadily, collapsing. At least a dozen, Nazis were killed and many injured in. the lighting with Government troops at Styria. Fighting was especially^ heavy at Judenburg. ■ - ■, " ". The death-roll in Upper; Styria is now twenty members of the Heiniwehr and a larger number of rebels. Army reinforcements are- hastening to Loeben, Liezen, and Dbnawitz. • ■ Government troops have driven, .the Nazis from Radkersburg into Yugoslavia, where they . refused to surrender their arms and threw them'into the river. After this they were granted asylum as political refugees. r : Alpine storms last night forced the aeroplane of Prince Starhemberg, the Vice-Chancellor, to return to Venice whence he arrived at Vienna by train at. 9.30 a.m., and' immediately took over active command of the Heimwehr. Before his departure ho held a council of war with officers &t his hotel, and ordered the mobilisation of 3Q0,000 Sehutzheimbund, and 'directed their operations from Venice..
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1934, Page 9
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