MOURNFUL CORTEGE

Northern Advocate, 28 July 1934, Page 9

MOURNFUL CORTEGE

VICTIM OF NAZI HATE. ILL-FATED DR DOLLFUSS MURDERER IDENTIFIED. GOVERNMENT DETERMINATION. TASK TO BE CONTINUED. {United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph,—Copyright.) (Received 9 a.m.) VIENNA, July 2G. While bells tolled, thousands of mourners today massed behind the ’ troops and policemen who lined the roads as the body of tlie murdered Chancellor ■ of Austria, Dr. Dollfuss, in a- metal coffin,, the hearse drawn by six black horses, was taken half a mile from the Chancellory to the Town Hall in order to lie in state. Detachments of police officials and infantry headed the procession. High officers and six of Dr. Dollfuss’s war comrades flanked the hearse, behind which walked the President, Herr Miklas, alone. Next were Prince -Starhemberg and Major Fey, who were carrying revolvers, contrary to the usual custom. Dr. Dollfuss’s widow and parents were too overcome by grief to take part in the procession. However, the dead Chancellor's sister, brother and brother-in-law, clad in rustic -garb, sprinkled ..holy water qn the coffin after it had been deposited in the catafalque. Dr, Dollfuss died almost penniless. » Prince Starhomberg, who has taken over the active control qf the Heiwinehr, announced at a meeting of the Cabinet that the 'Government would carry on as before, and would present a common front to carry out the task of the Dollfuss regime. The'police announced that the actual murderer of Dr. Dollfuss was a former corporal, Franz Hokwebor, • who was discharged from the army in 1932 for engaging in Nazi agitation. The “Reichpost” says it was Otto Panneda, an ex-soldier discharged because he was a Nazi. The Nazi party how officially disclaims responsibility for the rising. It declares that it must have been organised by irresponsiblcs. An official communique admits that considerable losses were .suffered by - Government troops in fighting for the Pyhrm Pass, Annaborg Hill, in Carinthia. The pass was taken after a long, fierce action. Nine Nazis were left on the field. Two machine guns and 100 rifles were captured. VON PAPEN FOR VIENNA. UNDER HITLER'S ORDERS. GERMAN CONDOLENCES. HUNDREDS OF REBELS ARRESTED. . (Received 9 a.m.) BERLIN, July 27. The Chancellor, Herr Hitler, sent a message to Herr von Papen today asking him to go to Vienna immediately and report on the situation there; also to act for a temporary period as German Minister to Austria.

The letter proceeded: ‘‘ln your now office you will be directly under my orders. Inquire into the attack on the Austrian Chancellor, which has been condemned and regretted most emphatically by the German Government. It is. my wish, if possible, to contribute to the'relief of the general situation and to see that our relations with the Gorman-Austrian states can be brought again into normal control, and friendly. channels.

“I ask you, dear Herr von Papon, to undertake this important task, because you have enjoyed, and are enjoying, my fullest and most unbounded confidence.”

Subsequently it ■was officially announced that Herr von Papcn had accepted the post in Vienna, also that ho had been relieved of his office of Commissioner of the Saar, General Goering is mentioned as his successor. Diplomatic circles consider the appointment an extremely ingenious move, as it removes Herr von Papcn from the immediate sphere of his cabinet colleagues, with whom his position has been difficult since the recent coup of the Nazi party. .Semi-official reports state that hundreds of Nazis have been arrested throughout Austria. It is reported that 20 combatants were killed in fighting at' Leoben, where an armistice has been agreed upon until dawn. SIGNIFICANT MESSAGE. MUSSOLINI’S OPINION. WHERE RESPONSIBILITY RESTS. (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, July 27. The well-known journalist, Mr G. Ward Price, director of Associated Newspapers, Limited, has specially gone to Vienna, The Daily Mail says great political significance attaches to Signor Mussolini’s telegram of condolence to Fran Dollfuss,'in which he said with emphasis rare in an official communication: “Nobody has any doubt where the responsibility, most immediate and most remote, for the Chancellor’s death, resides.” A Paris despatch states that the French President, M. Lebrun, lias telegraphed as follows to President Miklas: “I; was painfully affected to hear of the hateful attack which deprives Austria of the eminent heard of her Government,”

A Washington despatch states that President Roosevelt and the Secretary of State, Mr Cordell Hull, have sent messages of condolence to the Austrian Government in connection with the assassination of Dr, Dollfuss.