NAZIS IN CHARGE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 95, 21 March 1938, Page 9

NAZIS IN CHARGE

SITUATION IN AUSTRIA. ARCHIVES SAVED'CO MORE SUICIDES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, March 20. A message from Prague says refugees from Austria reveal that the archives of the Austrian Chancellery and Foreign Office, which were hitherto believed to have fallen into Nazi hands, have mostly been saved and deposited with a friendly Government. Ilie archives include documents relating to events after the Berchtesgacien agreement. Their removal will save numerous jieople from dangers. Nevertheless suicides among Jews and Catholics associated with Dr. Schuschnigg are growing, there being CO yesterday. Youths aged from 15 to 16 years and wearing swastikas assaulted the Chiel Rabbi and shaved off his beard. The Nazi methods often involve serious inconvenience. Herr Buerckel announced that the authorities would take strong measures against interference with the working of the railways, adding that the Nazis had removed hundreds of officials, resulting in disorganisation. The Gestapo has ordered Mr G. E. R. Gedye, the Daily Telegraph correspondent and one of the most outspoken and best-informed British journalists in Europe, to leave Austria within three days. Dr. Schuschnigg, who is still under arrest at Belvedere Palace, 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 the Austrian Nazis. Baron ‘Odo Neustaedter-Sturmer (former Austrian Minister of Public Security) was shot while under protective custody. It is revealed that Baron Karl Kar\yinsky, Minister of Justice under the Dollfuss regime, who was present in the Chancellery when Dr. Dollfuss was assassinated, has been held in custody by the Nazis for several days. Storm Troopers are posted, outside the Jewish synagogues, on which placards have been placed announcing that no Sabbath service will be held.