MARTIAL LAW

Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1933, Page 5

MARTIAL LAW

AUSTRIAN TROOPS READY KREMS ALIVE WITH SOLDIERS INNSBRUCK DISTURBANCES CONFISCATION PREDICTED NAZI PAPERS SUPPRESSED By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Rec. 10 p.m. Vienna, June 21. All Austria’s armed forces have been confined to barracks with orders to stand to. Martial law has been proclaimed at Krems, which is swarming with troops following the clash between Nazis and police. Huge crowds protesting against the Nazi ban collected in the main streets of Innsbruck and began processions. Strong bodies of police arrived and made a baton charge, thirty being injured and fifteen arrested. The disturbances increased so the police placed a cordon around the chief thoroughfares. Egbert Mosel, a Storm Trooper, has been arrested in connection with yesterday’s bomb outrage when a railway viaduct near Krems was dynamited. The ban on the Nazi party will be followed, it is stated, by confiscation of the party’s properly. The police have stopped pubheation of all Nazi newspapers except the chief organ Dotz, which is not allowed to be sold in the streets. Hundreds of persons have been taken to the police station for wearing the Swastika badge. GERMAN NAZIS ERECT PILLORY. THREAT TO THEIR SLANDERERS. Berlin, June 20. Nazis at Weringerede I have erected a pillory in the market place in which to expose citizens guilty of spreading “lies about the Chancellor, Ministers and the Nazi policy.”