GUNS READY.
AUSTRIAN UPHEAVAL.
Fascist March On Vienna
Feared.
OPPOSING FORCES MUSTERED.
(United Service.)
VIENNA, October 7. A great gathering to-day at Wiener Neustadt, 30 miles south-west of. Vienna, will represent a display Of strength in which three parties, namely, the Heimwest (Austrian Fascists), the Schutzbund (Socialists), and the Government, will take part. The town already resembles a field of battle. The Socialists are parading 20,000 strong as a counter-demonstration to a parade of an equal number of Fascists, who are assembling at the opposite end of the town. Between these are the Government forces—2ooo steel-helmeted soldiers, 3000 gendarmes, Austria's only motor field battery, two horse batteries and machine-guns. They have been mobilised in order to prevent a clash. Three hundred extra beds have been provided at the hospital and 30 stretchers are available. Schoolboys have vacated the boarding school in the town, which will be used as a barracks. All army leave has been stopped. The Socialists intend to prevent a rumoured march on Vienna by the Fascists, analagous to Mussolini's march on Rome.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 238, 8 October 1928, Page 7
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175GUNS READY. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 238, 8 October 1928, Page 7
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