AUSTRIA

Grey River Argus, 17 June 1933, Page 5

AUSTRIA

SABOTAGE ACT Underground Cables Cut CALL BOXES WRECKED. (Au>. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received Juno 16 at 9.30 p.m.) LONDON. June 16. The Loudon ‘‘Daily Tidegraph’s” Vienna correspondent >avs that an act cd’ sabotage, attributed to terrorists, occurred on Wednes lay night. Acting on expert knowledge, the propet raters chose a spot on a little used rood and dug down, and severed the underground telephone cables connecting Austria with the neighbouring countries. Thirty-four telephone call boxes were also wrecke-l. MANY LEADERS ARRESTED. It is now announced that 1.179 Aus Irian Nazi leaders have been arrested, including 357 State officials, 52 Stat* teachers, 37 Gendarmie officers, 61 railway officials. 81 Mayors and 37 lawyers aml judges DEMONSTRATION PRECAUTIONS Vienna is relieved that the Corpus Christi holiday passed without; incident Fearing a Nazi demonstration, hundreds of p ain clothes police mingled with the crowds. Their officers for the first time since the war, wore the old Imper.al uniforms, in preference t" he G- rman field grey.