DISQUIET IN AUSTRIA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23883, 10 August 1939, Page 11

DISQUIET IN AUSTRIA

MINOR REVOLTS ARISE NAZI RULE RESENTED VIENNA, Aug. 3. 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. Workers, almost daily, promote factory strikes and openly disrupt Nazi Party meetings. Farmers declare that Nazi promises of a reduction of taxes and cancellation Of mortgages have not been fulfilled. On the contrary, taxes have been increased. The farmers say that they are no longer masters of then own products. Disquiet has been intensified by the recent arrival in Vienna, from Germany, of tanks, artillery, and armoured cars, which have been placed strategically in the hills surrounding the city. Statements that these measures represent part of the normal military manoeuvres do hot convince the Austrians, who visualise an actual threat of enforcement of Nazi-principles.-The memory of Vienna's actions against the invading forces of Islam in the sixteenth and seventeenth 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 get rid of the Germans, too."