NAZI PANIC IN AUSTRIA

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 6 November 1933, Page 5

NAZI PANIC IN AUSTRIA

CITY PLUNGED IN DARKNESS

EXPLOSION OF SMOKE BOMBS. CHANCELLOR INTERRUPTED. TORCHES REPLACE ELECTRICITY (United Cress association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 11.30 a.m to-day. VIENNA, Nov. 5. Nazis cut the eeletric cables and plunged the -city of Ivlagenfurt in darkness immediately the Chancellor, Dr Dollfuiss, began to speak. Considerable panic fo-llowed and this was increased by explosions of smoke bombs throughout the city. Dr Dollfu&s was unperturbed and continued his speech by .torchlight until the electric lights were restored an hour later.

SAAR AREA RESTRICTION.

BERLIN, Nov. 5,

All elementary school teachers have been ordered to join the Nazi Storm Troops. ■Germany’s withdrawal from the League of Nations is intensifying Nazi activities in Austria, especially various propaganda devices, even the fixing of contrivances on tne backs of dogs with a sausage fastened in front of the nose. Every time the animals attempt to seize the sausage they operate a jack-in-a-box from -which a swastika pops out. The Saar Government Commission has approved of new ordinances restricting Nazi activities, one of forbids leaders of political associations to issue decrees meant to create binding obligations on members. Capt. Goering, giving evidence at the Reichstag fire trial, refuted charges that Nazis were responsible for the fire; though against Parliament they used strictly Parliamentary means to gain their ends, the Minister declared, and left violent methods to the 'Communists. | SERVICE IN' LONDON. LONDON, Nov. 4. The Nazis, according to the £ 4 Daily Mail,” have an extensive and highly organised espionage service in London working in direct touch with the Gestapo, Germany’s secret police. Nearly 300 Brown Shirt spies, the paper' alleges, are compiling lists of German refugees, terrorising them and denouncing them where possible as criminals.