NAZIS IN AUSTRIA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21979, 14 June 1933, Page 7

NAZIS IN AUSTRIA

ATTACK ON COUNCILLOR ARREST OF LEADERS FOLLOWS (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) VIENNA, June 12. Twenty-two Nazi leaders were arrested and the Brown House at Innsbruck closed following an attempt to shoot Councillor Seidle, the leader of the Tyro Reinwehr, who was wounded in the arm. A former ex-Minister of Education, Dr Rintelen, also narrowly escaped when his car crossed a plank, exploding a tube filled with dynamite. JEWELLER’S SHOP BOMBED TWO PEOPLE KILLED. a VIENNA, June 12. Among the other outrages was a bomb attack on a jeweller’s shop in which two people were killed and eight wounded. The Jewish owner tried to pick up the bomb and throw it out of the shop, but it exploded in his hands, killing him. If the terror continues the Dolfuss Government proposes to proclaim martial law and disband the whole of the Nazi Party. ACTION BY GOVERNMENT ORGANISATION DISSOLVED. VIENNA, June 12. As a first step towards complete outlawry the Government has dissolved the Nazi Soldiers’ League and ordered the expulsion of all unemployed foreign Nazis. POLICE RAID HEADQUARTERS VIENNA, June 13. (Received June 13, at 8 p.m.) The police have occupied all Nazi headquarters throughout the country.