TREASON CHARGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 November 1938, Page 5

TREASON CHARGE

THE NAZI INDICTMENT OF SCHUSCHNIGG. ALLEGED AGREEMENT WITH PRETENDER. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, November 22. The “Daily Telegraph’s" Vienna correspondent says that the newspaper “Neueste Nachrichten” publishes details of an alleged secret agreement between Dr von Schuschnigg, Austria’s last Federal Chancellor, and Archduke Otto, Pretender to the Austrian throne, which is to be the basis for an immediate trial of Dr Schuschnigg on a charge of high treason. It is alleged that £lOOO a month was sent to Archduke Otto from July, 1935, onward as compensation for the State’s use of his property. Dr von Schuschnigg allegedly appointed a secret committee of Ministers in order to deal with the Hapsburgs’ property in Austria in 1937, all payments being made to Archduke Otto. . Dr von Schuschnigg is reported to have said that £lOOO was a trifling amount compared with what had been taken from the Hapsburgs. BROKEN DOWN. FORMER CHANCELLOR'S PITIFUL STATE. (Received This Day. 11.5 a.m.) VIENNA, November 22. Dr. von Schuschnigg, who is likely to be released without trial, has suffered an almost complete mental breakdown. He walks with the aid of a crutch and is very thin. He mostly spends his days sitting motionless, staring into vacancy. His friends think he has been “released to die.”