DISMAY IN AUSTRIA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 41, 18 February 1938, Page 7

DISMAY IN AUSTRIA

THE GERMAN COUP New Minister Consults Hitler OPERATION OF AGREEMENT MILITARY MOVEMENTS ON FRONTIER

(By Telema.nh—Press Association—Copyright] Received Feb. 17, 9.50 p.m. VIENNA, Feb. 17. The Nazis are jubilant but the momentous news of the measures to placate them has caused the greatest depression among patriotic Austrians. The much-alarm-ed Jews and non-Nazis are not reassured by Dr. von Inquart’s hurried departure for Berlin after several telephonic conversations. It is believed that he has gone to consult Herr Hitler on the methods the Nazis demand in order to implement the agreement. Almost simultaneously it is announced that Marshal Goering will visit Vienna in March for discussions with Dr. von Schuschnigg reagrding Austrian-German military co-operation. Meanwhile there are suggestions of a hitch, as it is understood that the Austrian authorities have not received an indication of a cessation of the German military movements. Moreover, many former members of the dissolved semi-military formation are arriving from Germany, presumably to resume their activities. Dr. Inquart, formally assuming the Ministry of the Interior, said; ‘The German executive has never failed and never will fail. I expect every man to do his duty in the tradition of the German nation and the Austrian Fatherland.”