DISQUIET IN AUSTRIA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 19 August 1939, Page 11

DISQUIET IN AUSTRIA

MINOR REVOLTS ARISE NAZI RULE RESENTED GERMANY SENDING ARMS % VIENNA, 3rd August. General dissatisfaction with and minor revolts against German authority are reported to have again arisen in Austria. Whereas the police were at first recruited from local Nazi partisans, these Nazis are now being sent to Berlin and are being replaced by German Nazis. i Workers, almost daily, promote fac- : tory strikes and openly disrupt Nazi i Party meetings. Farmers declare that j Nazi promises of a reduction of taxes j and cancellation of mortgages have not (been fulfilled. On the contrary, taxea | have been increased. The farmers say jtl a; they are no longer masters of I their own products. Disquiet lias been intensified by the liecent arrival in Vienna, from Germany, of tanks, artillery and armoured cars, which have been placed strategy i cally in the hills surrounding the city. Statements that these measures repre--1 sent part of the normal military manoeuvres do not convince the Austrians. who visualise an actual threat !of enforcement of Nazi principles. The memory of Vienna’s actions agaisnt the invading forces of Islam in the 16th and 17th centuries is revived by an inscription found in Stefan Platz, in the heart of the city. It states: "We drove out the Turks, and we will ee‘ rid of the Germans, too.”