SWASTIKA SIGNS IN VIENNA

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 354, 11 September 1933, Page 5

SWASTIKA SIGNS IN VIENNA

Nazis Compelled to Clean

Walls

Press Association —Copyright. Vienna, Sept. S

Swastika signs having been painted in tar bn many walls, police in the middle of tho night visited the houses of a. number of known Austrian Nazis, awakened them from their sleep, formed them into seven “charwomen squads” of four men each and compelled them to take buckets and scrubbing brushes and remove the Nazi signs. A Communist squad, was similarly conscripted in another district to remove Communist inscriptions. Desertions From Austrian Army DR. DOLFUSS CONCERNED Press Association. —Copyright. Vienna, Sept. 10. Dr. Dolfuss is concerned at the increasing number of desertions from theAustrian army. The idea of Austro-Ger-man union no longer seems impossible.. j The threatening uproar in Europe is I comparable with the period immediately | preceding tho Great War.

The Fight Goes on in Austria

Press Association. —Copyright. Reed. Today, 1 p.m. ! Vienna, Sept. 10. | The city glittered with robes and • uniforms during the pan-German Ca--1 tholic Congress, but the tension is i growing The latest slogan, the Cnoss I versus the Swastika, typifies the | manner in which religious celelxra- ' tion is being linked with Dr. Dol- ; fuss’ fight to stem the rising tLdo of Nazism, which threatens to maltc ‘ his position untenable. .