NAZI RAID IN AUSTRIA
CASTLE OF STARHEMBERG ATTEMPT TO SEIZE ARMS VIENNA, May 23. One Nazi was killed and several were injured in a raid at Wachsberg on the castle of the former Vice-Chancellor of Austria, Prince Starhemberg. The police, forewarned of the plan, arrived simultaneously with the Nazis and a fierce fight ensued. The motive apparently was to capture a quantity of Heimwehr arms stored in the castle. Prince Starhemberg was not present at the time. The attack on Prince Starhemberg's castle has aroused fears of renewed Nazi violence. The police in "Upper Austria have been ordered to remain permanently on alarm duty to prevent trouble arising from the clash of Heimwehr demonstrations. Armed guards are stationed at Prince Starhemberg's 12 other castles in Upper Austria. So; far 28 arrests have been made in connection with the affray at Wachsberg, in which the police declare that 40 or 50 Nazis attacked, firing revolvers. The police replied with rifles. The fighting raged for 15 minutes in the darkness. One of the wounded died, but the ringleader and others escaped to Czechoslovakia. It is believed that several of the raiders were former members; of Prince Starhemberg's bodyguard, one of whom revealed the plot.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19023, 25 May 1936, Page 5
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