AUSTRIAN AMNESTY
POLITICAL PRISONERS. BEST NEWS FOR LONG TIME. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, December 25. The Vienna correspondent of The Times says that the Chancellor, Dr, Kurt Schuschnigg, in a Christmas broadcast, announced an amnesty benefiting nearly all the Socialists sentenced after the struggle in 1934 to retain the rights won after the war. Only sixteen would remain in prison. To them no mercy would be shown because blood was on their hands. The amnesty applies also to a number of those who took part in the Nazi putsch. The amnesty is the best news Austria has had for a long time, and the current talk of reconciliation may gain an element of reality. There are still a large number of prisoners serving police sentences, which is a source of grievance because of a lack of judicial control.
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Southland Times, Issue 22774, 27 December 1935, Page 7
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139AUSTRIAN AMNESTY Southland Times, Issue 22774, 27 December 1935, Page 7
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