COFFINS REMOVED
AUSTRIAN CHANCELLORS | ORDERED BY NAZI PARTY iIJ.P.A.-Uy Electric Telegraph-Copyright! VIENNA. 25th January. I The coffins of Monsignor Seipl and I Dr. Dollfuss, former Austrian Chan- : cellor.s were secretly removed at mionight and without ceremony from the crypt in the Seipl and Dollfuss memorial church and reinterred in common cemeteries. The removal, which the Vienna Press does not report, was ordered by the Vienna Nazi Party on the ground that neither statesman was politically important. Monsignor Ignatz Seipl was leader of the Christian Socialist Party and Chancellor of Austria in 1929 and at the time of his death in 1932. Dr. Dollfuss was murdered by Nazis in the course of an abortive rising in 1934.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 27 January 1939, Page 5
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