AUSTRIAN TENSION

Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1933, Page 5

AUSTRIAN TENSION

ACT OF SABOTAGE TELEPHONE CABLES SEVERED. United Press Association—By Electric 'Feiegrayti:—Gopyrigii u( LONDON, June 16. The London "Daily Terograp-h’s ’ v icuna ccirespondent says that iau act of sabotage, attributed to terrorist*, oumire-u on Wednesday night. Acting on expert knowledge, the perpeiratoiii cniose a spot on a little used road (and dug down, and severed tiie uiidfirgrouiiu telephone cables connecting Austria with the neighbouring countries. Thirty-four telephone call bo>ns were al.-.o wrecked.

jt is now announced that 1179 Austrian Nazi leaders have been arrested, including M 8? State officials, o2 State teachers, 37 gendarmie officers, 61 railway officials, 81 Mayors and 3/ lawyers and judges. Vienna ns relieved that the Corpus Chrsti holiday passed without incident. Fearing- a Nazi demonstration, hundreds of plain clothes police mingled with the crowds. Their officers for the first time since the war, wore the old Imperial ur.forms, in preference to the Gorman field grey.

PREMIER SECURES LOAN. I . LONDON, June 15. tj Premier Dolfuss, who expects to reach Vienna on Sunday via Paris, by air, secured the " ten million pounds loan, authorised at Lausanne. The date of issue has yet to be fixed. The subscribers are England, France and Daly. • France whose share is the largest, delayed the loan because the French Socialists resented the treatment of Socialists in Austria.