Vienna Returns to Normal

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 65, 18 March 1938, Page 8

Vienna Returns to Normal

NEBVES FRAYED AFTER HECTIC WEEK ALLEGIANCE TO HITLER United Preee Association—By Electric Telegraph.— CoojrriKht. VIENNA. March 18. The city has assumed a more normal appearance, although people are somewhat mentally and physically exhausted after the hectic days of the past week. Business people are very anxious about future developments. Austria will co op, rate in the fouryear plan, the first step in which, tne prohibition of the sale of Austrian tin. ber, which will be needed for the manufacture of synthetic products, has been announced. Dr. Schacht, the President of the German Reichrbank. has made ar agreement with financial organisations under which the Austrian National Bank will co-ooerate with the Reichs bank. Civil servants refusing to take the oat’, of allegiance to Herr Hitler wtV be dismissed. Six thousand police swore allegiance to Herr Hitler at Helden Platz, aftei which Herr Himmler, the GcrmaChief of Police, addressed them. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency •ays that over 500 Jews have been arrested in the past three days in Vienna, mostly business people. Their funds have ben confiscated and their families left penniless. Professor Otto loewi has been arrested. Storm Troopers have raided all Jewish organisations. confiscated their funds, pillaged Jewish shops and also desecrated several svnaeoeue*