STRUGGLE IN AUSTRIA

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 243, 11 September 1933, Page 7

STRUGGLE IN AUSTRIA

CHANCELLOR AND NAZIS.

A GROWING TENSION,

■'CROSS VERSUS SWASTIKA.”

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) VIENNA, Sept. 10/

The city flittered with robes and uniforms during the pan-German Catholic Congress, but the tension is growing. The latest “the Cross versus the Swastika,” typifies the manner in which the religious celebration is being linked with the Dolfuss fight to stem the rising tide of Nazi-ism which threatens to make his position untenable. The Chancellor, Dr. Dolfuss, is concerned at- the increasing desertions from the army.* The idea of a AustroGerman union no longer seems impossible, threatening an uproar in Europe comparable to the period immediately before the Great War. Swastika signs having been painted in tar on many walls, the police in tho middle of the night visited the houses of a number of known Austrian Nazis, wakened them from their sleep, formed then into seven “charwomen squads” of four men each, and compelled them to take buckets and scrubbring brushes and remove the Nazi signs. A Communist squad was similarly conscripted m another district to remove Communist inscriptions.