THIRTY RINGLEADERS

Evening Star, Issue 21784, 28 July 1934, Page 17

THIRTY RINGLEADERS

THE AUSTRIAN OUTBREAK EVIDENCE OF CAREFUL PREPARATION Pretf .Association —By Telegraph—Copyrigh' VIENNA, July 27. (Received July 28, at 1.30 p.m.) Preliminary investigations into the onslaught on the Chancellery indicate the existence of thirty ringleaders besides a special storm guard squad of 106 ex-members of the army formed weeks before. The drillmaster and housekeeper of the gymnasium in the Siebensterngasse, where the assailants assembled and disguised themselves, have been arrested. All the Revolutionaries’ revolvers were of German origin, but motor lor ries belonged to an Austrian fruit firm. PARIS, July 27. President Lebrun telegraphed to President Miklas: “I am painfully affected by the hateful attack, which deprives Austria of the eminent head of the Government.” ITALIAN TROOPS ON FRONTIER. ROME, July 27. (Received. July 28, at 1.30 p.m.) Forty thousand Italian troops remain on the Austrian frontier. GERMAN LAMENTATIONS BERLIN, July 27. (Received July 28, at 1.30 p.m.) The newspapers are full of lamentations that the foreign Press seized the “ melancholy occasion ” to heap suspicion on Nazism as the direct cause of Dr Dollfuss’s death. INTERNATIONAL SITUATION NOT COMPARABLE WITH 1914 LONDON, July 27. (Received July 28, at 1.30 p.m.) A ‘ Sun-Herald ’ service message says; “Whilst the British Government is uneasy, it is understood that it sees no reason to in any way compare the Austrian situation with that of 1914. It is emphasised that in 1914 Europe was divided into two hostile armed camps, whereas the Dollfuss assassination merely served further to unite the world against Germany and weaken Hitlerism and intensify the anti-Ger-man campaign. Germany’s plight in the winter is regarded with the greatest foreboding. Nobody wants an explosion there, but it is possibly unavoidable, with the economic situation rapidly worsening. Britain mainly desires, said the spokesman, a stable Government in Germany. Recent events do not give such promise.”