AUSTRIAN POLITICS

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 September 1929, Page 5

AUSTRIAN POLITICS

NEW PREMIER’S SPEECH

POWERS FOR PRESIDENT

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

VIENNA, September 28.

M. Schober, the new Premier, in a speech in the Chamber, said that the demand for constitutional reforms had grown louder and more stormy. He considered that it was his duty to bring the Heimwehr movement into a legal form. The President must be given the power to appoint or dismiss the Cabinet, to dissolve Parliament, and to proclaim martial law. He must have the supreme command of the Army and of the law courts, and must be freed from politics. The police and the franchise must be reformed. A foreign loan will be negotiated. He added that he favoured co-oper-ation with Germany, but said that Austria will not join any foreign alliance or group of States. SOCIALISTS AND FASCISTI. (Reed. Sept. 30, 2 p.m.) VIENNA, September 29. The expected .clash between Socialists and Fascists did not materialise. The Socialists last night had their fling, and to-day 40,000 Heimwehr Fascists, in full uniform, paraded, guarded by cyclist and motor police and detachments of troops near by, but there were no clashes in any of the four towns where disturbances were feared. The Communists tried to rush the Fascists at Moedling, but were driven back.