BOMBS IN AUSTRIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 June 1934, Page 7

BOMBS IN AUSTRIA

VICE-CHANCELLOR’S ESCAPE MUCH PROPERTY DESTROYED [by CABLE PRESS ASSN. COPYRIGHT.] VIENNA, May 9. i An infernal machine sufficiently pow- , erful to destroy a whole storey, was ’ found in the office of Vice-Chancellor Star hem berg, where there are rooms being redcoated. The bomb contained five pounds of dynamite, and there was a time device set to make it explode when Vice-Chancellor Starhemberg was expected to inspect the work. I This episode, according to the reports, adds another to many outrages which, it is suspected, have been due to the Nazis or to the Socialists, for the purpose of ruining the Austrian tourist traffic, and of forcing the Government into a greater expenditure. Police, guarding a railway bridge at Lueg, were fired on from the mountain side. One of them was killed. Others were seriously injured. There has been other sabotage, which includes a. railway line being blown up at Krems, destruction wrought in the Danube Valley, including the destruction of a steamer and of wharves. Bomb explosions at the agricultural college and at the house of the theatrical producers Max Reinhardt. Scores of arrests have resulted. There have been outrages also at Innisbruck, where the pipe conducting the water supply to produce electricity for the , Arlyberg Electric Railwaj' has been blowui up in three places, and the ■

house of the leader of the Patriotic Front at Kappenberg has been destroyed. A serious accident to the ParisVienna express was narrowly averted when it stopped at 2 a.m. near Salzburg, where a railway Bridge had been blown up a few’ minutes earner. There are unconfirmed reports that oilier bridges have been destroyed on the Austrian south and w’est main lines.

SPANISH PEASANTS’ STRIKE. THOUSANDS IN PRISON. (Recd. June 11, 2 p.m.) , MADRID, June 10. Agricultural strikers in the Badajoz province are prepared to let the finest harvest for half a century rot in the fields, rather than yield to the demand of the employers. The strikers declare they have starved for two years and can starve a bit longer. One hundred and fifty thousand are affected. Fierce fighting continues with the civil guards. The prisons in hundreds of small townships in South Spain are overflowing, as thousands of peasants have been arrested. An attempt on the life of Jose Primo de Rivera, son of the late dictator failed. Hundreds of bathers at a fashionable bathing beach at Playa, saw the Communists stone to death a youth believed to be a Fascist.