THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH.
VIENNA'S HECTIC DAY OF
AMAZING STORY
OF PARLEY
SAFE CONDUCT
FOR REBELS
"
ALTERED BY
EVENTS
London, July 26. A grave view of the poasi- bla effect of the Nazi revolt in Austria and the murder. of Dr. Dollfuss on the Euro. pean situation is taken in British political circles.
The greatest amazement and f apeculation has been caused by a well authenticated report that the Insurrectionfats are being allowed to go free and are to proceed to Germany.
Reutor's Berlin correspondent Cannounces that the Nazi robels from Austria will be given free the frontier where escort across
.
they will be accommodated, though. their unprecedented case leaves Germany's reception of them very uncertain.
GERMAN MINISTER'S PART.
Router's Vienna correspondent alau says that the Nazi rebels, who consisted of soldiers and officers dismissed from the Austrian Army
GERMAN MINISTER RECALLED
Acted on His Own Initiative
Berlin, July 25.
The German Minister to Austria has been recalled and, an official statement. issued that all Austrian Nazi rebels crossing tho frontier will be arrested.
The German Minister's recall is due to his inter. "vention in the affair and his arrangemant with the Aus- trian Government that the rebels be allowed to proceed to Germany before contult- Ing the Government of the Reich.
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Tho Foreign Minister, Baron von Neurath, has expressed the sympathy of the Gorman Government at the death of Dr.
·Dollfuss.
Horr Hiller is returning Immediately from Bayreuth,
Reuter,
Major Fey,
HEARTBROKEN WIDOW
DARKENED VILLA AT
RICCIONE
NEWS KEPT FROM CHILDREN
Riccione, July 26. In a silent villa shrouded. in darkness and guarded by volicemen, Frau Dollfuss sits heart-broken, conceal ing her grief as far as pos- sible, while her two children are sitting waiting for news of their papa.
His arrival in Riccione was engerly expected to-day.
Only Signora Mussolini 18 allowed to enter the house, from her villa..next door.
Little five-year-old Eva, Dr. Dellfuns' youngest child, an houri or two before the trugle shooting
her spoke to
father over the long-distance telephone and greet-
Dr. Dollfuss Bleeds To Death
MINISTER
TO ROME ARRESTED
Rebels Hold Chancellery For Hours
THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1934.
Dr. Dollfuss, Austria's diminu- tive Chancellor, was murdered by the Nazi rebels who captured the Chancellery in a surprise attack yesterday morning.
He was shot in the neck and shoulder and bled to death.
The rebels were in control of the Chancellery for hours, with the Cabinet as prisoners. The Minis- ters later released on the interven- Austria, who secured a promise of tion of the German Minister to
a safe conduct for the rebels to the German border.
The German Minister acted without any authority from Berlin and has been recalled.
Dr. Anton Rintelin, the Aus- trian Minister to Italy, has been arrested on a charge of complicity
STORY OF THE SHOOTING.
TRAGEDY AND SENSATIONS
Von Neurath Recalls
DERBY WINNER SOLD
The German Stud Owner Pays Fifty
Minister
HEIMWEHR
BEING MOBILISED
Thousand Pounds
London, July 26. The
Maharajah of Rajpipla has sold the Derby winner, Windsor Lad, to Mr. Benson, the owner of the Beech House Stud at New- market for £50,000.
Windsor Lad's next race, the St. Leger, will probably be his lastRenter
Rebels In Mussolini
Calls Police Garb
Meeting Of in the plot. One hundred and Cabinet forty-four Nazi who participated in the putsch are held on charges of killing Dr. Dollfuss.
ITALY'S INTEREST IN EVENTS
Rome, July 20.
ESCAPED MAN DROWNED
BODY FOUND IN STREAM
The body of a Chinese who whilst handcuffed escaped from police custody on Tuesday night, has been found in a' stream near U Kau Pln, in the Shataukok district.
The man, whose name was Li Yau, was arrested for the alleged theft of 4 cow and was being taken, in the company of his mother, to Shataukok Folico Station when he bolted. The con- stable fired at the man, but did not anriously disable him.
Indications are that the hind fell into the stream and in doing BG struck his head against a stone, receiving injuries which rondered him unconscious, with the result that he Was drowned. An examination of the body showed that there was a bullet wound in the small of the back, inflicted bolted. The body has been re by the constable when the man moved to the mortuary..
ANOTHER ATTEMPT.
The reins of government have been taken over by Dr. Schuschnigg. who has ordered strict martial law: The shadow of Dr. Dollfuss's, to escape is also reported this An attempt by another prisoner Three hundred thousand of the tragic death lies heavily over the morning from Yaumati. The man, Heimwehr are being mobilised on where Frau Dollfuss and her two arrested, for alleged soliciting, by famous_holiday resort, Riccione, Ping Yam, aged 24 years, had been orders from Prince von Starhem-children are staying, as the a
plain-clothes "detective. guests of Signor and berg, who is in constant telephone Mussolini.
Ha Signora made an effort to bolt and in the touch with his lieutenants from. The shocking nows was rushed the latter's hand.
struggle with the detective he bit Venice,
to Signor Mussolini and broken i to the widow by Signora Mussolini, Later, the detective disabled the Some of the Nazis were badly of his feelings, but he is returning
11 Duce has given no indication man by aring at his leg with a
revolver. The MG11 wounded when they were machine- to Rome early in the morning and admitted to the Government Civil has been gunned from the Ministry of to discuss what action is necessary
will immediately meet the Cabinet Hospital. Finance opposite the broadcasting regarding the Austrian situation. station.
He is not, however, expected to NAVAL PARLEY'S order further mobilisation of troops. It is considered that the
These are the oustanding Italian troops now stationed along features of yesterday's day of the frontier are sufflelent for all PRESENT AND FUTURE drama in Vienna, graphically described in reports below.
yesterday morning, while the Austrian Cabinet was sitting.
One hundred and fifty Nazis, who had attired themselves police uniforms, assembled
in
at
"Coup Prepared Long the Athletic Club nearby, rushed
Ago"
(Special to "Totograph")
to
the Cabinet meeting and arrested Major Foy and Dr. Karwinsky.
The Chancellor, Dr. Dollfuss,
AT BROADCASTING STATION
་
Revolver At Head Of Announcer
Vienna, July 26 The falac broadcast report claiming success for the Nazi
eventualities.-Reuter.
NO TROOP MOVEMENTS.
OUTLOOK
London, July 25, Rome, July 25. In the Commons to-day, Mr. Despite the events in Austria, Baldwin, questioned as to the there have been no movements of present position of the naval con troops to the frontier.
veraationa preparatory to the
A spokesman of the Foreign Conference in 1985, said that pre- Office stated that the Independ-liminary conversations had al- ence of Austria must be maintain-ready taken place with representa ed.-Reuter.
tives of the United States and French Governments.
Similar conversationa with representatives of the Italian undertaken in September, and with Government would probably be representatives of the Japanese Government In October. British Wireless.
(Be Telegraph, Copyright, Telegraphio He had already left the room, but he pea Ordinance, 1884. Received
duly must have been shot almost im- putsch was apparently made by latest vigilance," was the com- 36. $.13 a.m.)
Vienna, July 25.
announcer, under
It seems that the Nazla invaded
mediately. 08 Major Fey W05 Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, Minister conducted by the Nazi invaders the official of Education, who has been asked Dollfuss lying on the sofa dying, the broadcasting station, held Austria is felt hore to be absolute-
to-another-room where he found threat. by President Miklas to form £ Cabinet, announced over the radio with a shot through the throat,
that Dr. Dollfuss was dead.
#
Major
Dr. Anton.
Paris, July 26, France is following the develop- ments in Austria with the utmost anxiety.
The situation demands the ment made in
an authoritative quarter.
A free, independent, peaceful revolver to the official announcer's ly essential to the welfare of FEY RELEASED. Tolling the tragic story with
head, placed a paper before his Europe. Italy's attitude Ju at pro of the utmost leurs In his eyes and in choking
oyes and ordered him to read it fent considered Fey and Karwinsky out.
importance.--Router. voice. Dr. Schuschaleg declared were released by the Nazis and It stated that the Government, that he found Dr. Dollfuss badly left the Chancellery. wounded, lying on the Chancellery
resigned and that It has been ascertained that Rintelin had taken over power.— sofa. Dollfuse asked him to take Dr. Dollfuss was wounded by a Router.
HEIMWEHR BEING of his wife and children, and revolver shot and carried shortly afterwards succumbed.
MOBILISED drawing room. He had Dr. Schuschulgg announced that strength for
just! brief conversation; all theatres would be closed dur- with Major Fey and vinna at dawn. As neroplane Dollfuss.
Dollfuss is flying to ing the national mourning for Dr.inlater, murmuring: Take care another
has been placed at her disposal
of my family, please. "We are convinced," said Dr.
Strict Steps To Keep It seems that the rebels were
by Tite Italian
At a Cabinet meeting held in Government. promised freedom in return
Schuschnigg, that this coup was the afternoon without Dollfuss, Kenter. for
Order prepared long ago, but are happy Major Fey decided, after consult- the release of Major Fey and other
to say that the State executives ing President Miklas, to refuse to Cabinet Ministers.
still stand in close ranks behind negotiate with
Vienna, July 26. the rebels, but the legitimate Government
The capital and the provinces coup d'etat can be de- talion of troops with orders to the maintenance of the political operations he is directing from
instead despatched a second bat-are still apparently quiet although 000 The finitely stated to have falled. It storm the Chancellery if the in-status que seems to be very un- Venice by telephone:--Reuter. was carried out by 144 heavily-surrectionaries did not surrender.
certain. armed Nazis."
or superannuated are being given n safe conduct from Austria to Gormany, and he explains that thig extraordinary development is the result of a promise given by Major Fey and the German Legation in Vienna as a condition for Major Fey's surrender from Chancellery captivity.
This mediation was too inte to save Dr. Dollfuss, who was shot just prior, to the arrival of the mediator (the German Minister in Vienna) at the Chancellery-Reuter.
A
ASSASSINS TO BE HELD.
Government
Madame Dollfuss.
ed him proudly with bur first words of Balian: "Buon Giorne, Papa."
Fran
ARMS EMBARGO
BRITAIN'S PLAIN
caro
to
a
CURFEW ORDER IN CAPITAL
Major Fey also brondenst newa Fey wrote
It is understood that Major No risks are being run. INTIMATION
The city is virtually in a state of Dr. Dollfuns' death.
letter announcing 1 Dollfuss was wounded and would of martial law. London, July 25,
MARTIAL LAW.
agree to any anecessor approved Vienna, July 20.
The Prefect of Police has A Geneva message states that
It is officially announced that by the President if bloodshed decreed the death penalty for in- communique at the request of the British states that the Nazi rebels who Government,
Castillo the neverest martial law hòa beon could be avoided. Senor
The President,surrection. All houses and cafes were actually implicated in the Najera, President of the Com-proclaimed, Every house, res-however, refused to parley with must close under a curfew order
the rebels and Chancellor's murder will not be mittee of the League Counel!taurant and cafe has to close at
endowed Dr. at eight p.m. from to-night and accorded
until the order which is dealing with the dispute 8 o'clock nightly, while assemblies Schuschnigg with full powers.
is cancelled- passage Germany,
between Bolivia and Paraguay, fof two or more people are forbid- Prince von Starhemborg, who Reuter, It is reported, in fact, that forty has dispatched
was in Venice. left Immediately; Nazia have already been executed which have not yet replied to the Dr. Schuschtileg has assumed for Vienna by air na soon as news of the attack reached him, but aa result of yesterday's events. suggestion for an arnis embargo, charge of the Government.
Meanwhile, the Sturmscharen he was forced to return owing to an intimation that the Britishi | ALL UNDER ARREST,
Government, having learned that and other patriotic forces have the bad weather-Renter. Italy will prohibit the export of een mobilised. war material to Bolivia and
# Hafe
to
Later.
All rebels still in Vienna are under arrest and will not be taken to the frontier on the grounds that this was only promised if no life was lost.
This guarantee was broken when Dr. Dollfuss was shot.
The Cabinet says that the actual
assassins will be punished.
President Miklas is expected hare to-day to dotormine the com- plexion of the new government.- Router.
ANTON RINTELIN ARRESTED
Austrian Ambassador
to 18 countries
Paraguay, is ready to order, with
den.
The Mayor of Vienna, Dr.
Schmitz, speaking to representa
out any exceptions regarding cur- tives of the Press emphasised that rent contracts, suspension of the the situation throughout Austria
is calm.-United Press. export of war material.
Vienna, July 26. The British Government desired The Arst official announcement to know whether other States are of the murder of Dr. Dollfuss
of
MANILA STOCK EXCHANGE
BROKE INTO SCHOOL
|
intimation by Dollfuss that the visit was not desired Franck made a speech attacking the Austrian Government and there were wild scenes between the Nazis and tho Holmwehr. Franck was asked to leave Austria and Germany was notified that he would be expelled, if he was not recalled. Many over 2,000 Austrian Nazis arrested as a sequel to a long series of outrages.
Prince von Starhemberg German Nazis were deported and
Takes Action
Prince
Venice, July 26. The Heimwehr leader,
Dr. Habicht, whom Hitler wished von Starhemberg, hold a Counell tion in Vienna, but whom Doll
to make an attache at the lega- of War with his lieutenants and ordered the mobilisation of 300,-fuss refused to recognise in that
the World Conference in London Heimwehr militia. whose pelled in June.
capacity, was arrested and ex- Dollfuss was at when Hitler retaliated by arrest- ing and deporting an Austrian attache in Berlin. The Chancellor at once appointed him to a post at the legation in London, On his return to Vienna Dollfuss banned the Nazi party and had its property confiscated.
AUSTRIA'S DEAD
: CHANCELLOR
Millemetternich's Career
PRIDE AWAKENED, Dr. Engelbert Dollfuss, who was Ho declared in an interview that only forty-two years of age, came he did not fear the Hitlerites of Austrian peasant stock. Ile sither in Austria or Germany, first sprang into prominence in He would protect his country's 1931 when he succeeded Thaler na Minister of Agriculture. The long-buried pride of the Dr. Independence from all attacks. After the fall of the Burcach Austrians had awakened. He did Cabinet in May, 1932, as the result not aim at a permanent dictator-. of a very grave financial crisis it ship, but, faced with the Nazis Austria, Dr. Dollfuss stepped into challenge, he had dispensed with the breach, arranged a loan from Parliament for the League of Nations and became Ho had refused a coalition with the time being. From oplum-den keeper to house-
Chancellor.
the Hitlerites because, they were Stringent conditions were breaker was the transition in the tached to the loan and the Austrian to foreign leaders. With a Nazi ata foreign party owing alloglance career of Chan Choi, nged 40, who to-day came before the Kowloon against the Government and a move-said, the Anschluss with Germany Hitlerites began An agitation coalition in power in Austria, he Mingistraic, Mr. Wynne Jones ment to nelze power. charged with being found at the
would be three-quarters accom intent.
CHINESE SENT TO GAOL
4 similar embargo-British Wire- Schuschnigg., who announced that by Monara, Swan, Culbertson and Central British School, on felonious ¡a semi-dictatorship which led to visited Romea fact of import
lesa.
PHILLIPINE GOLD prepared on their parts, without was made in a wireless broadcast SHARE
QUOTATIONS the end of the month, to agree to Minister. reservation, and if possible before at ten o'clock last night by the
Education, Dr. To-day's quotations as received
To forestall this, Dollfuss set up plished. In June, Dolffuse had he had taken control and assumed Fritz shortly after the close of the the Chancellorship.
morning session of the Manlin The School, which has closed for but with the Socialists who resanted position to Austro-Gorman union. trouble, not only with the Nazis, anco in view of Mussolini' op- "The blood shed by Dr. Doll- Stock Exchange are as follows: the summer vacation, is in the the suppression of Parliament: The Chancellor was the small- fuss," he said, "raust not be in
charge of a caretaker, who found The Government was supported by eat statesman in Europe His vain."
Asked Hid Bales Volume Chol yesterday in the act of die the Heimwehr who runnin hostile height was only 4 ft 11 in, and he Anlamok Goldfielde 0.48 0.46 0.15 be mantling electric fittings in the to the Nazis' plan for the abson was nicknamed "Millimetternich."
enguet Consolidated 10.00 20.00 26.09 20100 cloakroom. The intruder succeed old River
0.17 0.18
od in escaping from the premises, Tpo Gold Mines 1.20 1.00 1.08 000 but was arrested by two Indian Hores Minjar Co.
1.60 8.70
9.70 8000 Radarot Minbi Co. 0.13 0.11
policemen when he had progressed Bujo Consolidated 214 0.18 Lis 2000 as far as Austin Road, United Parcale
0.18 0.34 0.34 20000
Ambassador to Rome, has been arrested in Vienna,
He was known to bave strong Dr. Schuschnigg also stated Nazi sympathies although he was that all troops sind police are officially a Christina Socialist. loyal and the government is in
Ills name was mentioned complete control of the situation. "controller" of Austria by the Nazia who raided the broadcasting
FIRST MOVE, Dr. Anton Mintelin, the Austrian | station-Reuter.
To Rome
Vianna, July 20.
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Price In Peso
Price Price
Barula Gold Minina | 0.33 0.32
0.12 10000
It appears that the Nazis made their first move at. 11.30 o'clock stray. Vetume Peso 74,000.
B. C. F. Gaht share Index 68.8., Market
Sentence of two months hard labour was inflicted.
tion of Austria in Germany
GERMAN PROPAGANDA.
Recently he had established a vary elono with Mussolin
· pornòtal: ¡friendship. In May last year, Herr Hitler Bent Dr. Franck to carry out pro Two previous unsuccessful at- paganda in Austria Despite an tempts had haan made on His life,
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