AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 2 March 1934, Page 5

AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS

EXPIRY OF ULTIMATUM VIOLENT DEMONSTRATION. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright oil •'‘•VIENNf-A'j. Thursday. Austrian Nazis; following the expiry of Herr HabiCht’s ultimatum, to-night violently demonstrated ; ' at Insbruck and lit gigantic Swastika fires on the 6000-feet high Nordkette Mountains, simultaneously' bombarding Innsbruck with smoke bombs, one- of • wliiqb destroyed 50 feet of a glass -screen at a famous glass-painting establishment. The police threaten to arrest two Nazis for every smoke 'bomb.’ A NEW DECREE. (VIENNA, Thursday. The sequel to a mysterious order that all of ages between 14 and 18 throughout the country must register with the police is a decree that is being issued providing for their compulsory enrolnient in an organisation on Nazi-Fas-cist lines for patriotic . "education, including bi-monthly physical exercises. SOCIAL DEMOCRAT LEADERS. TO STAND TRIAL. (Received Friday, 9.10 a.m.) VIENNA, Thursday. Though the ‘ ‘ Tageblatt ■’ ’ reports that about twenty arrested Social Democrat leaders shortly will be tried on a charge of having previous knowledge of the revolt, there is still an uncertainty about the fate and treatment of prisoners as a whole. Dr.. Dolfuss last week promised foreign correspondents an opportunity of seeing them, but so far this has not been granted. It is believed that the treatment of some prisoners is far from satisfactory, especially the leading women deputies of whom twelve are stated to be sharing one cell.