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No. 26381?

HAM #ALAF FRIDAY, JULY 27,

1934.

日六十月六

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SEVERE FIGHTING IN NAZI REVOLT IN STYRIA GUERILLA CAMPAIGN: HEAVY LOSSES Prince von Starhemberg Now Virtual Dictator

Patrols of the Schutecorps are swerching all pedestrians in the streets of Vienna. Photo shows a typical scope.

N.Y. SHARE CRASH

AVALANCHE OF WAR

...RUMOURS

WORST BREAK OF THE YEAR

New York, July 26. The Wall Street Journal} reports that the market crashed on the worst break of the year, due to the avalanche of unconfirmed war rumours which hit the market.

SCORES OF NAZIS ARRESTED

STERN MEASURES OF SUPPRESSION

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VIENNA, JULY 27,

PRINCE VON STARHEMBERG, CHIEF OF THE HEIMWEHR, IS TO-DAY VIRTUAL- DICTATOR IN AUSTRIA. IN THE CAPACITY OF VICE-CHANCELLOR, HE IS. NOT ONLY SUCCEEDING DR. DOLLFUSS AS CHANCELLOR BUT IS TAKING OVER ALL HIS PORTFOLIOS.

The Nazi revolt is petering out. A general rising in support was expected, but was not forthcoming.

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· · ·Powerfully......-armed groups of Nazis are fighting fiercely in parts of Styria and Carinthia, but the revolt is being methodically suppressed and the the clean-up is not expected to take so long as Socialist revolt of February."

Among the Italian troops now stationed along the Austrian border ready for emergencies are the.... famous Bersaglieri," shown above on the march.

MUSSOLINI RUMOUR

GOING TO VIENNA

FOR FUNERAL

ROME DENIAL

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Between fifteen and twenty government troops have been killed in action in Styria, but no Nazi casualties are given. They have been heavy on both sides. Scores have been wounded, many of them seriously. 1.8.ml

GRIM STORIES OF THE FIGHTING

Vienna, July 27, Fighting on a large scale between The market was particularly vulnerable for a bear drive, due the Nazi rebels and Governmental to the drought and strikes and forces has been renewed in Styria weakened margins causing frantic and part of Carinthia. dumping by both big and little

No quarter is being given, and tradors, together with a flood of casualties have been heavy. selling orders from Europe.

Around three million shares CONSIDERABLE LOSSES.

and Frieburg under fire, disrupting the traffic.

Other Aghting In the east of Styrla is proceeding bitterly, while the main Vierina-Italy railway has been interrupted by the revolt.

Later, Considerable losses are admitted

were traded and hundreds of new It is officially admitted that the by the authorities in further heavy

low levels for 1934 were recorded.

Rome, July 27. It was

persistently rumoured, fin Vienna last night that Signor Mussolini had arranged to attend | the-funeral-of-Dr. Dollfuse-on- Saturday and would be flying to m Vienna, thus making his first journey abroad since the Locarno Conference of 1925.

Commenting on the rumour, the Foreign Office hore told the United Press that the raport was wholly without foundation..

The tickers were as much as six Federal troops have, suffered con-fighting which is reported to have the Palace Venezzia, where he

Salzkammergut.

minutes behind, which caused considerable losses in desperate fight-been proceeding Hiderable confusion., and there ing for the Pyrn Pass, where the

соп

all night At

As soon as Signor Mussolin reached Rome yesterday after- proceeded directly to noon, he

had a long conference with Signor

Aviation. and Count Pruss

Nine hundred Nazis have been War and

Del Creta, Under-Secretary forj WRs as much as eleven points dif. Nazla had taken up astrong delen taken prisoner during the Styris Clano, the head of the

offere.

ference between some. bids and sive positions.

The Pass is one of the key points, German, Austrian and Italian as it connects Upper Austrin with{* bonds were dumped, all declining as Styria, which flanks the Hungar much да seven pointa.--Swan, lan and Yugo-Slavian borders. - Culbertson and Fritz.

Early reports stated that the) Pass was taken by storm from the rebels with the loss of a major and five soldiers killed and a colonel seriouly wounded. Later despatchea show that the Jusses were much heavier and that the toll of wounded was heavy.

No indication of the Nazi losses available.

HERR HABICHT DISMISSED

Hitler Takes Action

is

fighting-Reuter.

SCORES OF NAZIS ARRESTED

Former Chancellor Included

Vienna. July 27. Dr. Anton Rintelin's son-in-law,

a lawyer of Graz, in the heart of

has been arrested.

Bureau of the Foreign Ofce.-- United Press.

OFFICIAL ITALIAN

STATEMENT

No Cause For Alarm: No General Rising

London, July 26. A statement reported to have

in

HITLER'S CLOSE INTEREST

Von Papen Asked To Go To Vienna

Borlin, July 27, Herr Hitler has asked- Captain von, Papon to pro coed to Vienna immediately and report on the situation. ---Rauter,

Later,

Captain von Papen will Gorman temporary

in Vienna.-

bo

Minister Reuter,

MARTIAL LAW IN

MINNEAPOLIS

.....TROOPS PATROL

THE CITY

STRIKE STILL. UNSETTLED

NO PAPERS IN DUBLIN

GREAT FIRE IN FRANCE

SIXTY MILES OF FOREST

THREE KILLED

Toulon, July 26.

At least three lives have been claimed and well over a | million sterling damage caused by one of the most disastrous forest fires in modern French history,

The fire is still.raging, over an aren sixty square miles in extent! One castle has already been on- gulfed by the flames and completely destroyed. Efforts to isolate two. others were partly successful and they have only been partially damaged by the outbreak.

Practically the whole of the Forest of Maures is threatened by. the disaster; the loss in which is oficially estimated at one hundred million francs.

VICTIMS SUFFOCATED.

The victims were two soldiers and a workman among the hundreds of fire-fighters. All three were. overcome by smoke fumes and died of suffocation. Scores of others aro suffering severely from the fumes.

The fire was sprending to-night

fanned by a steady breeze.

PRINTERS OUT ON at the rate of ten miles an hour,

STRIKE

WAGES DISPUTE DEADLOCK

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Dublin, July-26.

A strike of printers in the Dublin newspaper offices has been declared and the

Free State capital will be entirely without newspapers to-morrow (Friday).

Five

NAVAL AID.

thousand troops are now Bghting the blaze and Admiral Dubots, commanding the French Mediterranean Fleet is concentrat- Ing all avaliable vessels at Le Lavandou, where the fire is at its worst.--Reuter.

DOG BITES

TWO CASES IN THE

LATEST LIST

Pte. Rowlance, of the South Wales Borderere, was attacked and bitten by a dog yesterday, and has The trouble has been threaten-been admitted to the Milltary ing for some time, the printers Hospital for treatment. having made demands for an in-animal, which belongs to Captain The ercase in wages.

D. E. Winter, of the same Negotiations have been proceed-Regiment, is being kept under ing but a deadlock was Anally observation at the Kennedy Town reached, the employers declining Depot. to accept "the minimum terins"

Another case is reported from of the printers, who thereupon Kowloon, the victim being a decided upon a strike to-morrow. Chinese, Tong Kwong-hol, of 151 Minneapolis, July 26. In two instances, printers down-Boundary Road, and the dog the Martial law has been pro-ed tools before the time fixed by property of Peter Lung, of Kim- claimed in Minneapolis and the their union. military have taken over compléte Tho final editions of the Evan-precautionary treatment, while the Darley Road. Tong is receiving control.

ing Herald and the Evening Mail animal la new. detalped at The action was ordered by the were not published to-night, be Mataukok Governor in conformity with his cause the printers refused to ultimatum to the parties to the handle a statement which it was lorry drivers' strike, demanding a intended to publish explaining the settlement within

vidwpoint. twenty-four employers hours.

Special.

Failure to

reach an agreement

Governor's decree STOP PRESS

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tho

Berlin, July 20. Hitler, In a letter to Von Papen,

Munich, July 26. The arrival in Munich of Herr

the Nazi storm-centre of Styrla.been made at the Italian Foreign Ja the responsibility of the Back Chat Hitler, who is said to be deeply worried by evanta in Austria and

Office to-day says the ovents employers. RECKLESS COURAGE OF

One hundred and four alleged Austrin, while filling the whole

The possible repercussions in Italy,

NAZI MACHINE-GUNNERS. Nazia were arrested in Vionna has been followed by the dis missal of Herr Habicht, the Ger-

during the day, including Dr.Italian nation with sadness, pro- tasued an hour after a meeting Annaborg

Carinthia Raeaner, Austria'a first Chancel Government seents I in

un the between the employers and the vido no cause for alarm, of the

to be in full leaders of the Drivers' Union, at man lender

Austrian (bordering Italy) was also captured lor after the war.

which the uulon accepted the Nazis

control. Thero was

no general {by government troops after grim His official post was that of fighting, the severity of which may

Prince Ehrbach has been rising In Austrii, no the Nazia Pence plan submitted by appointed "Provincial Inspector of the Aus-be gathered from the determination

Germon Charge

had promised. Their support did Federal Mediators Board. Tho tring Nazis."

of the Nazis rebels, nine of whom

D'Affaires in Vienna, follow. not materialise, and they are left cployers, on the other hand. ing the recall of Dr. von In a deplorable position as re- refused to recept the plan, reject- ing the part laying down the wago gards the Austrian population scale. Vienna's streets are heavily Italy's economic and political Four thousand National Guards-pays the latter in high tribute and guarded and suspected pedestrians polles towards Austria will prmon are now patrolling the citysaures Von Papen that, he enjoys are being searched.. Generally voed as before, n the unfortunate death of Chancellor Dollfuss does not cause that polley to eenge, but ainly to pass to his successor."

The British Minister to Austelu, Sir Walford Bolby, who hna beoni (on leave, in England, left for Vienna this afternoon. →British | Wirelons,

He has been chiefly responsible were found lying dend on the for the nightly broadcasts from battlefield around two munchine- the Munich broadcasting station, guns, which they kept in action attacking the Dollfuss regime, one until every man was slain. of the factors in the Ineltement to violence and terrorism."

He has been generally regarded. is the chief plotter for the

ARMISTICE AT LOEBEN.

Rieth.

speaking, the city in un quiot an a

Twenty-six were killed as the cemetery-Reuter, UA- tablishment of Nazi rule in Aus.result of fighting which lasted all tria-Router..

AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT.

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Berlin, July 27.

July

The official communique on Horr Habicht's dismissal anys that it has been ordered "although thorough Investigation has shown that no Gorman was directly concerned in the develop- ments in Austria."

rocalled

Herr It is

that Habicht's anti-Austrian broad- casts from Munich have been ...widely critic ined abroad.-United

·Press.

day in the steel centre, Lochen, where the parties agreed to an armistice until mix o'clock thin morning.

The Nazis are in a perilous post- tion but they still refuse to sur render their arms.

BRITISH ATTITUDE DEFINED Official Reports Of Events

Reuter,

LATE EARL OF OXFORD:

TABLET UNVEILED IN ABBEY Dan Kan, a postain, muddenly frolimpsed; as he entled as 54 Elgin

London, July, 26. Struct Btreat yesterday to deliver a A memorial tablot to the late Hatter. lls was conveyed to the Earl of Oxford and Asquith was Questioned in the House of Government Civil Hospital where his unvalled in Westminster Abbey to- Commons regarding the Aun- duath, asribed to natural causes, oc- day, bombardment failed to distrian situation. Sir John Simon curred this morning.

Rebels are also strongly

entrenched in the hill country.

at Schladming, where an in- tensive'governmental artillery

lodge them.

RAILWAYS INTERRUPTED...

London, July 20.

The ceremony was. performed by read the offieini version of you

tha Acting Prime Minister. Sir terday's events, communicated A would be suleide named Ma Wah, Stanley Baldwin. There was a verbally to the Diplomate who was admitted to the Government Jargo: and distinguished gathering Naris are also holding the main Corps in Vienna last night, the Civil Hospital yesterday, was shown of Members of Onth Houres of

to have drunke: may lagpiston-molution. Parliament-Britinfo: Wirelezred (Continued on Page 7.),

railway line between Voalkermarkt"

MONEY-CHANGER ROBBED

DARING WANCHAI

INCIDENT.

Lam Lee, proprietor of the Chung Shing money-changer's shop at Queen's Road East, was daringly robbed by two men when walking near the Taiwong Temple at.Wanchal, at 8 o'clock last night. After being jostled he found that a wad of notes amounting to his pocket. He followed the two over $100 had been extracted from his fullest confidence.

nton as they ran through Ship Hiller expressés regret at the Street on to the reclamation, whers effect of Dollfusa' murder on an al- one of them was arrested and the.

money recovered," ready unstable European political situation and states his desire to contribute to the relief of the situa-YUNGTING" RIVER- tlon and re-direct Austro-Gorman relations into normal and friendly channels.-Reuter.

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