COMMUNIST’S CRIME

Evening Star, Issue 18650, 3 June 1924, Page 4

COMMUNIST’S CRIME

attack mi Austrian CHANCELLOR. TWIGS V/OUHDSD. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. VIENNA, June 2. A young Communist fired three revolver shots at Dr Scipol (the Chancellor) when the latter was entering a motor car at the railway station The bullet pierced his lung. An operation was performed, and Dr Seipcl is expected to recover. The Communist shot ihimselt in the head, and is in a dangerous condition. The police regard the crime as political, and assert that Dr Seipel, who was formerly a Roman Catholic priest, had many enemies, despite his distinguished services to Austria, Dr Sc-ipcl was twico wounded, the first time slightly, but the second time more seriously, ills assailant turned tie weapon upon himself when he was about to be arrested. Ho has been identified as a weaver named Jaworck, of Pottendorf, near Wienernaustadt.—Sydney ' Sun ' Cable. WOUNDED CHANCELLOR. VIENNA, June 2. (Received Juno 3, at 11.40 a.m.) A bulletin announces that Dr Soipe.l, the Chancellor, passed a quiet night. His condition is satisfactory, and haemorrhage has not extended.—Router. [The Chancellor of Austria, the fourth of the Republic, Dr Ognaz Seipcl, unites the prelate, doctor, professor, and member of Parliament in one person. Dr Scipcl, who is about forty-six years of age, was active for four years as a Reman Catholic priest, after which ho tar.ght theology at the Vienna and Salzburg Universities. In the last Cabinet of the broken-down Monarchy he figured as Minister for Social Work. In 1920 ho was elected leader by the Christian Socialists. The Social Democrats, who arc his; bitter enemies, call him a Jesuit, and one of the last Paladins of the late Emperor Karl. In the critical days of the ex-Emperor's escapades Dr Seipel seemed to stand with one leg in the alluring ramp of his former master and the other in the barren fields of the Republic, without, however, giving himself away, so that ho left those ordeals unscathed. His Government is a coalition of Christian Socialists and Pan-Gormans.]