POLICE CHARGE AT NAZI DEMONSTRATION STAGED IN VIENNA
(Receixmd 24, 1 p.m.) VIENNA, May 23. A hand-ball match between Austria and Germany, whicb the latter won by 15 to 6, was the occasion for violent Nazi denxonstrations. The majority of the 40,000 people present, who were ignorant of the ganxe, attended merely to stage a political demonstration. When the Germans scored they waved Swastika flags, cried "Heil, Hitler!" and wfldly applauded. When Austria scored they hooed. After the garne 10,000 people marched to the city shouting Nazi slogans, assaulting Semitic-looking' persons and invaded coffee houses. The police, at flrst tolerant, flnally intervened most energetically. Mounted men charged repeatedly and several hundred arrests .were made.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 108, 24 May 1937, Page 7
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114POLICE CHARGE AT NAZI DEMONSTRATION STAGED IN VIENNA Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 108, 24 May 1937, Page 7
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