AUSTRIA’S VIGII

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 227, 7 September 1933, Page 8

AUSTRIA’S VIGII

GUARDING THE FRONTIER GARRISONS STRENGTHENED. SPECIAL DUTY ’PLANES VIENNA, September 5. Eight aeroplanes have gone to Innsbruck for special frontier duty, while a machine-gun unit and mountain howitzer batteries have been sent to Tyrol relieving the infantry at Innsbruck and Bregenz, where garrisons have been strengthened by a Viennese regiment. It is the official intention not to leave the frontier unguarded for a moment. NAZI PROPAGANDIST. EX-ENGLISHMAN’S TASK LONDON, September 6. The “Daily Herald’’ says that IM 1 Frederick Willis, an Englishman, who has become a naturalised German and an ardent Nazi, is shortly coming to London as Counsellor to the Embassy He will be Herr Hitler's chief propagandist in Britain. Mr Willis, who is a son of a British officer in the Indian Army, has worked in the past few years as a journalist in Rome. There is no official intimation of the appointment received in London, but Mr Willis announced at a farewell dinner that one of his tasks would be to act as liaison officer with Briti-h Fascists.