AUSTRIAN ARCHIVES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 March 1938, Page 7

AUSTRIAN ARCHIVES.

WILL SAVE MANY PEOPLE FROM DANGER. , FORMER MINISTER SHOT (By Telegraph-Press Assm-Copyright) Received Sunday, 9.20 p.m. PRAGUE, March 20. Refugees from Austria reveal that the archives of the Austrian Chancellery and Foreign Office,, which hitherto Were believed to have .fallen into Nazi hands, were mostly saved' and are deposited with a friendly Government. The archives include documents relating to the events after the Berchtesgaden conversations between Herr Hitler and Dr. Schuschnigg. , Their removal will save nuraeroupeople from dangers. hi evertneiess, suicides among the Jews and Catholics associated with Dr. Schuschnigg are growing, sixty occurring yesterday.

Youths of 15 and 16, wearing swastikas, assaulted the Chief Rabbi and shaved off his beard.

The Nazi methods often involve serious inconvenience. Herr Buerckel has announced that the authorities will take strong measures against interference with the working of the railways, adding that the Nazis have removed hundreds of officials, resulting in disorganisation. Dr. Schuschnigg, who is still under house arrest at Belvedere Palace, has refused to sign a declaration binding himself to abstain from political activity in return for a safe conduct, enabling him to leave Austria, says the Daily Mail's Vienna correspondent. Although a year ago he advocated leniency for Austrian Nazis, Odo Neustadter Sturmer, former Austrian Minister of Public Security, was shot while under protective custody. It is revealed that Baron Karl Karwinsky, Minister of Justice, under Dr. Dollfuss, who was present in the Chancellery when Dr. Dollfuss was assassinated, has been held in eustQdy by the Nazis for several days.

Storm troopers are posted outside Jewish synagogues, on which placards have been placed announcing that no Sabbath service will be held.

British journalist ordered TO LEAVE AUSTRIA Received Sunday, 7.5 p.m. VIENNA, March 19. The Gestapo has ordered Mr. G. F. E. <Jedye, the Daily Telegraph’s correspondent and one of the most outspoken and best-informed British journalists in Europe, to leave Austria within three days.

NO RECOGNITION BY AMERICA Received Sunday', 7.5 p.m. WASHINGTON, March 19, The Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, indicated that United States will not recognise, at least at present, the legality of Germany’s annexation oi Austria, says a United Press correspondent. This followed an intimation from Herr Prochnik that the affairs of ithe Austrian have been absorbed by the German Embassy.

Mr. Hull indicated that the United States Government would treat the ■German Embassy as a representative mission of Austria. This is a mere matter of mechanics and does not involve the larger question of the legality of the union between the two countries. “The extent to which the Austrian or similar incidents are calculated to endanger the maintenance of peace" and the preservation of the principles in which this Government believes/' he added, “is a matter of serious concern to the United States. ’ ’