PRECAUTIONS IN AUSTRIA

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 30 April 1934, Page 5

PRECAUTIONS IN AUSTRIA

PROTECTION FOR CHANCELLOR OVER 2000 EXTRA POLICE GUARDING OPEN-AIR ASSEMBLY HOUSES SEARCHED FOR. ARMS (British Official Wireless.) Received 10.30 a.m. to-day. VIENNA, April 29.. A Linz message states that unprecedented precautions have been taken to ensure a respectful hearing for the Qhancelloy, Dr. Dollfuss, at an openair meeting to-morrow. Two. thousand one hundred extra pol ice have been put on duty and 100 secret police in plain clothes posted in hotels and boarding houses. The feeling in the city where the February revolt started is running high. Thousands of Socialists, and Nazis already arrested will be released oji Tuesday. Hundreds of houses have been searched for bombs or firearms and all peasants arriving in special trains will be searched.

- * - MAY DAY IN''FR ANCE

THREATS OF DEMONSTRATIONS

, LONDON, April 28. The new police prefect of Paris, M. Langeron, is taking elaborate precautions to ensure order on May 1, when Communists and socialists threaten street demonstrations, including a 24homis general strike, says the Paris correspondent of the “Daily Mail. The Paris garrison will be confined to barracks, and police mobile guards will be oil duty. M. Sarraut, Minister of the Interior, has issued a warning that any foreigner fount! demonstrating anil be arrested and immediately deported.