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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 10, 1941.
VIENNA, “CAPITAL” OF ANTI-NAZI REBELS
Awaiting Chance For Open War On Germans
(The author of the following article, Maurice Feldman, was a writer for educated at the University of Vienna and later was Austrian and Swedish newspapers.)
VIENNA, ONCE KNOWN for its gayety and later as the centre of the socialist-democratic deve- lopment of the Austrian Republic, has begun its third epoch and now is becoming known as the Cap- ital of the Opposition, returning travellers report.
Vienna is no longer a national capital, and the name Austria must not be used because it now is officially the German Province of Ostmark.
Though the city hao been against the order, The Gestapo relegated to the status of Just arrested all workmen in their another provincial town of Ger- homes. many the spirit of the Austrians, particularly the Viennese Spirit, has remained unchanged, it is re. ported, and Vienna has become the secret headquarters and meeting place of rebels against Nazism.
who under
the
When Adolf Hitler marched into Vienna in March, 1939, there were many persons who based great hopes on the Anschluss. They in- cluded men, women and youths Dolfuss- Schuschnigg reginte had been unemployed; adventurers who be- lieved that a revolution would make it possible for them to fish in troubled waters; petty mer- chants and
,Punishment
Each was questioned separately and given the alternative to return to work or go to Dachu, After three days nearly all were at work again.
As a punishment they had a 10 per cent. wage reduction and their lunch time was shortened by half-hour, so they now
M'LORD'S
باید
BITTER
Mr. Justice Croom- Johnson, at Leeds- "How anybody's head can be so-weak as to be affected by modern beer. I don't quite follow."
ALL FOR
BIGGEST SKUNK
00001
Hundreds of skunks are work twelve and one-half hours awaiting delivery to Hit-
Instead of twelve. This is one
example of how the Gestapo ler as a result of a party
handles strikes.
Wage of the workers are just given by Woody Hocka- impoverished acade-sufficient to provide for the most day, "America's eccentric micians who hoped that Hitler urgent needs. Wages higher than peace crusader, at Wa- would smash for them the com- 400 Reichsmarks a month, exactly petition of the Jews.
was
Austrian Nazis Disappointed.
$80. are subject to taxes and other tanga Oklahoma. reductions up to 60 per cent. There are no Sundays off or holi- days and two shifts are working, one by night.
Everything went differently Few Newspapers Sold from what the 150,000 Austrian Nazis had been expecting. With
There still
are six newspapers Hitler, brutal goosestepping im- issued daily in Vienna. but the perialism marched into Austria. total circulation is said to be not Then camie the war against greater than 150,000 copies, The Poland in September. 1939. It only paper read extensively is the the Austrian soldiers who Viennese edition of the "Voelkis- were sent into the first lines where cher Beobachter." Most of the forced to subscribe, danger was greatest, in Poland, officials are Norway, Belgium, France and and it is the only paper that prints Yugoslavja. The casualty list of the official communiques. the Reichswehr contains a great proportion of Austrian soldiers. There is hardly one family in Vienna that has not suffered· · a death or serious wound in the war.
Many soldiers of
the Tyrol Alpine regiment have been ex- ecuted because of mutiny In Norway. The superiors of the Austrian soldiers are all officers` of the Reichswehr,
On the two great drill grounds of Vienna, the Schmelz and the Jesuitenwelese, travellers report German sergeants daily command the Austrian soldiers with expres slons like "lazy pig" or "Austrian idiot." Suicide of soldiers is not rare in Austria. In the Radetzky barracks. at Ottakring a Viennese district inhabited mostly by work-
Price of admission to the party was one skunk, and the whole town attended,
Woody started the day by do- ing a ope-man dance. down the main street. He was barefooted and clad in hotel towels, a beach wrap and feather duster head dress.
“Bring A Skunk”. Stopping traffic and paralýsing the business, he pranced down street throtying Haridbills to star- iled citizens.
Despite the threat of severe The handbills read: Come penalty, thousands. of persons my party, and bring a skunk. Free listen to foreign radio pro-food and soft drinks will be serv- grammes, even to the English. | ed. The speeches of Hitler are as Bcorned by the public as are the newspapers.
to
the
"The skunka wilt be sent to Hitler," Woody explained, "Just he show him how much stinks" The antagonism between
Woody said later that the party Germans and the Austrians is was his greatest achievement. He almost as great as between the added, "My only worry now is to Germans and the Czechs. There get the skunks past the British have been many demonstrations blockade." against the Gauleiter Baldur von Schirach. The wives of the Nazi leaders Paul Joseph Goebbels and Herman Wilhelm Goering and their children, who live now in the castles of the Hapsburgs, having fled from the British Royal Air Force, never appear men seven soldiers committed public without bodyguards. suicide last Christmas Eve. - -
The victories of Hitler have While the younger men without not strengthened the spirit of the exception are sent to the first hinterland. In Vienna- there ex- lines, the older ones; the so-called ists only a few Nazi fanatics who land forces, have to serve at home, believe in the anal victory of Ger- They have to watch railway sta- many. The masses of the popula- looking
in
HEARSE
RIDE TO LAY ODDS
A solemn, expensive- hearse drew
tions, munitions depots, factories tion are awaiting, fists clenched, smoothly to a stop in a and public buildings. Almost all for the day of reckoning.
of the male population is in uni- form. The only exceptions are workmen considered indispensable,
'Plane Plant Strikes
The working men and women of Vienna, lower Austria and Styrla are the exponents of the opposi- tion against Hitler. A ten-year training for social democracy; the unions and many other economic, political, and cultural associations of the Austrian workers yielded
HE DEFIED
SHARKS
Although sharks were good results. There are illegal Swimming all round him, organisations of workmen, though Cadet David Hay dived the world knows little or nothing into the sea and rescued of the strikes, and sabotage. In the Viennese factories..
Cambridge street. People in the street stood rever- ently by as the doors opened, and a woman in a nearby house looked out. of her window, surprised.
But instead of tall hatted, black-clothed undertakers' men, tea rollicking book-makers and their assistants jumped out of the hearse. They
carried bookies' face-boards and satchels
This was the nannar in which they had solved the petrol and car shortage situation in their the radio officer of his home town of Wakefield to go to
Newmarket, AINS
Last November 12, the anni- merchantman which had versary of the founding of kes been sunk by an enemy
republic, there were lasting: three hour
Wienner Neu
aeroplane.manufac
nna raider.
"When I came back from the
races on Wednesday- I saw, th
hearse standing near, my house, sald a local man
The men, abviously book-make- ers and their clerks, got out mughing and talking. One of them
rld fixed up-lodgings,
As he swam back to the raft on ing single workm were which survivors were escaping his and sånt to D huclo hing was torn by a shark and again workmen wall. Hay is to get the Albert Medal knocked at the door next to mine not from political reasalts for his gallantrym only, but from economic ones, as Many of the crew had been. The hearse returned for them well In nearly all plants the killed in the raider's shell and after breakfast the next morning workmen have to toll ten hours a machine-gun attack. Two boats and off they went presumably day, with overtime pald from the were got away, but the others to the races again. cleventh hour on. On January 1, were shot to pieces. Nizip The hearse was driven by a 1041, one of the biggest factories, Those left on board launched man in chauffeur's uniform, He Siemens Schuckert, introduced the two rafts, and just before the ship took the hearse off for the night twelve-hour day. The workmen went down they jumped overboard when his passengers had got
their lödgires. struck for three days in protest and swam for them, EN