NAZIS IN AUSTRIA

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 70, 24 March 1938, Page 10

NAZIS IN AUSTRIA

CLERICS ARRESTED

CAMPAIGN AGAINST ROMAN

CATHOLICS

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

(Received March 24, 2.30 p.m.)

LONDON, March 23

The "Daily Telegraph" states that- the Holy See has been informed of the arrest of Monsignor Waitz, Archbishop of Salzburg, after his arrival in Vienna to confer with Cardinal Innitzer on charges of possessing proof of his complicity with French and Belgian Communists. Five other priests were taken into custody, one of whom, Canon Steinwonder, was struck in the face by a policeman.1 Monsignor Pavilovski has been placed under protective arrest. Father Wilhelm Schmidt, scientific director of; the Lateran Museum in Rome, has been served with a summons while in Austria charging him wifti writing on anti-German racial doctrines, and remains in a convent under surveillance. The police have evicted nuns, priests, and other inmates of the Roman Catholic Artisans' Institution at Salzburg and seized the funds of this and another organisation. All Catholics employed in the Salzburg Catholic University have been dismissed, and'all Catholic lay institutions have been abolished in the Linz Diocese. The Catholic Press no longer exists; the entire staffs have- been superseded by German Nazis.

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CUSTOMS AND CENSUS

(Received March 24, 2.30 p.m.)

LONDON, March 23,

The "Daily Telegraph's"' Berlin correspondent reports that Germany is admitting Austrian products duty free as from March 26.

The Census due in Germany on May 17 has been postponed in order to include the population of Austria.