CONTROL OF AUSTRIA

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21014, 18 April 1938, Page 7

CONTROL OF AUSTRIA

DRASTIC LAWS ENACTED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright VIENNA, April 15. An Austrian Provincial Government law which has been approved by the Reiah Government provides for the appointment of commissioners empowered to administer commercial undertakings until October, If that is considered necessary in the public interest. Austrian branches of foreign firms are not exempted and their proprietors are deprived of all rights during the commissioners’ control, but they must bear all expenses. Another law stipulates that permission is required before the founding of any new industrial enterprises, or before the enlargement of existing businesses. This particularly applies to foreign firms. FATE OF EX-CHANCELLOR STILL UNDER ARREST United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright VIENNA, April 13. It Is understood that Dr. Schuschnlgg, the former Austrian Chancellor, has been transferred to the German concentration camp at Dachau, to which all the other Austrian political offenders have already been sent. WAR ON JEWS ARROGANCE OF NAZIS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, April 13. The Vienna correspondent of the “Daily Mail" reports that during a performance at a large cinema Storm Guards marched in and ordered all Jews sitting with Aryan girls to stand up. Those who obeyed were marched out. Other men with Jewish features were forced to produce their identity papers.