AUSTRIAN DISSENSIONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 October 1928, Page 7

AUSTRIAN DISSENSIONS

AVERTING A CRASH

(Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.)

LONDON, October 7. The Vienna correspondent of “The Times’’ says: Though the Viennese breathe a sigih of relief because the threatened storm has blown over, there is little cause for congratulation, seeing that one-third of the Federal Army and 2000 police are garrisoned at Neustadt. Despite the warning of the July riots in 1927, nothing has been done to enforce internal disarmament. The Fascist organisation is at present the better trained, disciplined and armed, and also the more numerous, but the Socialists’ private army is becoming’ daily better 'organised, and more militant. Every Austrian knows the harm thus done to the country’s reputation abroad, but nobody attempts to stop the intolerable filibustering. The economic conditions — they mainly explain the creation and development of the Fascist army—as a struggle for existence —are dangerously intense. The Fascist movement represents the conservative, religiojus countrymen’s hatred of the city’s godless, predatory Reds.”