AUSTRIAN CRISIS

Grey River Argus, 15 June 1933, Page 5

AUSTRIAN CRISIS

HITLER'S AGENT ARRESTED War Against Nazis (Aus. & N.Z Cable Assn.) VIENNA, June 13. Nabiclit. regarded as Hitler’s chief emissary iu Austria, was arrested in his apartment at Linz, after a violent The ane>ts of G««rmnn Nazis total eighty. Another dynamite outrage occurred at Vienna, several >h<>ps being damagITeniicr Dolfusg is returning to Vienna from London, to-morrow owing t<» th.. Austrian crisis. Tin* police have occupied :fil the Nazi headquarters throughout the COMMISSARS APPOINTED. \ I EXNA. June 13. I <'ahib.g ]i ;t . appointed Commissars with plenary powers in Vienna, and the provincial rentes. who will be responsibl,. to the Government regardMinisters issued proclamations forbidding army and police membership to Nazis owing to alleged treasonable illegal .arthods. Seven thousan • police are concentrated at Vienna, with machine guns covering the chief buildings, in readiness to deal with disturbances. The police raided Hitler’s birthplace. at Brannan, the local brown house, and arrested the loader.

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MANY ARRESTS MADE. VIENNA. June 13. The police throughout the country have closed one hundred and seventv Nazi brown houses and questioned three thousand Nazis. They have arrested four hundred, of whom forty are German citizens. ’ Cabinet has appointed nine special security commissioners, mostly generals and colonels, who will be vir* 1 tual dictators of the respective pr»" vincos, and are ennowered io deal ; with any emergency. APPEAL TO POWERS 0 VIENNA. June 14. The public doubts the official denials 1 that Herr Dolfuss requested Britain and other Powers to intervene in the Austro-German conflict. ROMAN CATHOLIC LEADER INJURED. (Received June 14 at 7.30 p.m.) MUNICH, June 14. A gang of men forcibly broke into the house of Dr. Schloegl, well-known leader of the Bavarian Catholics, and demolished the furniture and then boat Dr. Schloegl so unmercifully that he had to be sent to hospital GERMAN GOVERNMENT’S ACTION. BERLIN. June 14 It is officially stated that the Government reserves its action against Austria. iu connection with the latter’s refusal to release Nubicht. CtERMANY’S CREDITORS LONDON. June 3. Herr Schacht has resumed talks with the representatives of Germany’s creditors. HUNGER STRIKE. LONDON. June 13. The Vienna correspondent of the London Times” says that Habncht has begun a hunger strike.