POLICE RAID UNIVERSITY

Taranaki Daily News, 30 May 1933, Page 7

POLICE RAID UNIVERSITY

RIOT BY STUDENTS QUELLED PRIME MINISTER DRIVEN OUT STRANGE SCENE AT VIENNA HOMAGE PAID TO “MARTYR” By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Vienna, May 28. Violating the Vienna University’s mediaeval privilege 200 police, under Government orders, entered the building with' drawn truncheons and ended the rioting against Dr. Dolfuss, the Prime Minister, and the Minister of Justice, Herr Schussriig. x The occasion was the Catholic students’ memorial demonstration in honour of Leo Schlageter, who was shot by the French for sabotage in the Ruhr in 1923. The Nazis, resenting outsiders’ homage to their own “martyr,” drove away Dr. Dolfuss and Herr Schussnig and severely handled Catholic students. When the police arrived the Nazis barricaded themselves in and threw chairs, inkpots and books at the police, who quelled the disturbance by arresting some and dispersing the remainder. A Dusseldorf message states that 300,000 Brown Shirts (Nazis) and Stahlhelms (rationalists), including 70,000 youngsters, marched to the foot of the Schlageter memorial as a climax to the commemoration of Schlageter’s death to hear Herr Goering speak. He described Schlageter as the “last soldier of the world war and the first soldier of the third Reich, who died defending his country’s honour and peace.”