FASCIST AUSTRIA

Northern Advocate, 7 February 1934, Page 7

FASCIST AUSTRIA

another step nearer DEVELOPMENT IN TYROL lIEIHWEHR COUP (United Bresa Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, February 6. The Vienna correspondent of the Daily Mail” states that what is virtually a Fascist. Government was established in the Tyrol under the Minister of Propaganda, Dr, Steidlo, Although the Provincial Diet has not boon formally dissolved, Prince Starhemberg has formed a military council; and large reinforcements of Hoimwehr are arriving. Dr. Dollfuss, the Chancellor, telephoned asking the Governor of the Tyrol and the Hoimwehr chiefs to confer with him at Vienna, The Vienna correspondent of the j I i HfnMAltAnl-Aii oova 4-1) n4* 4 - )i

The Vienna correspondent of the “Manchester Guardian” says that the Hoimwehr coup d’etat has undoubtedly brought Austria a step nearer to being a Fascist State, though so far the Heimwehr Council has not usurped normal government. It is merely acting as an advisory body, while Hoimwehr excesses, such as maltreating and dosing a Socialist editor with castor oil and occupying the Socialist newspaper offices, have been suppressed.