NAZI REBELS

Grey River Argus, 16 August 1934, Page 5

NAZI REBELS

Austrian Trial PLEA THAT THEY WERE DUPED. (Aus. & N Z. Cable Assn.) VIENNA, August 15. The court-martial has commenced of fifteen more of the Nazis in connection with the Chancellory <( putsch,” including those Nazis who commandeered the Government broadcasting station and gave the signal for a rebellion. Johannes Domes, who replaced Schreck as the leader of the attack when the latter was killed, admitted his guilt, and also declared that he was in contact with Holzweber. He had received instructions on July 23 to prepare for action. All of those charged pleaded that they were the dupes of other Nazis in higher positions. ITALIAN ARMY MANOEUVRES. LONDON, August 14. “The Times’s” Romp, correspondent says: Mussolini has ordered all Ministers and Under-Sec-netaries <•' participate in the Army manoeuvres on August 17 to 24, in which over COOOiOO troops twill be engaged, the largest for years. The manoeuvres will be carried out in the Tuscan Appennines. Aircraft .will be used on an unprecedented scale. Mussolini will watch the operations, while his colleagues discharge the military functions assumed on mobilisation. Mussolini’s order emphasises thp morn’ importance of thp Ministers regaining touch with the Army, during th greatest ttnaining activity.

AIR WARFARE POSSIBILITIES. AMSTERDAM, August 1' Anthony Fokker expressed th? opinion that the most appalling thing about the next war in the air is thal no country will be ab.le adequately to defend itself against modern air attacks, which (will take place like lightning. A great part .of London would be doomed if attacked by largo squadrons. Air supremacy lies jn the possession of sufficient factories, constantly producing in larger numbers ineneasingly improving machines. The existing air' forces will be obsolete in one or two years.