CLASH IN AUSTRIA.

Wairarapa Age, 25 May 1936, Page 5

CLASH IN AUSTRIA.

ATTACK ON STARHEMBERG’S CASTLE. NAZI ADVENTURE FOILED BY POLICE. BATTLE FOUGHT IN DARKNESS. (Received Sunday, 6.30 p.m.) VIENNA, May 23. One Nazi was killed and several were injured in a raid on Prince von Starhemberg’s castle at Waehsberg. The police were forewarned of the plan and arrived simultaneously with the Nazis. A fierce fight ensued. The motive apparently was the capture of a quantity of Heimwehr arms stored in the castle. Prince Starhemberg was not present at the time. The attack has aroused fears of renewed Nazi violence. The police in Upper Austria have been ordered to remain permanently on alarm duty to prevent trouble arising from the clash of Heimwehr demonstrators. Armed guards have been stationed at Prince Starhemberg’s castle and at twelve other castles in Upper Austria. So far twenty-eight arrests have been made in connection with the affray at Wachsberg, in which the poliqp declare that forty or fifty Nazis attacked, firing revolvers. The police replied with rifles and fighting raged for fifteen minutes in the darkness. One of the wounded had died. The ringleader and others escaped to Czechoslovakia. It is believed that several of the raiders were former members of Prince Starhemberg’s bodyguard, one of whom revealed the plot.