UNREST IN VIENNA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 44, 22 February 1939, Page 7

UNREST IN VIENNA

GERMANY PERTURBED SLOGANS IN RED CHALK CONCENTRATION CAMP FOR AUSTRIAN NAZIS [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright] Received Feb. 21, 11.5 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 21. The Evening Standard says that Germany is most perturbed by a wave of unrest which is sweeping Vienna. Slogans in red chalk such as “We got rid of the Turks and will get rid of the Germans” are appearing on streets and walls. Despite the efforts of the Gestapo the sources of the movement cannot be traced, though it is known that more and more workers are throwing their weight in with the underground Communist movement. Austrian Nazis are forced to knuckle down to the German, who override their decisions.

Spy movements do not hesitate to make arrests, regardless of rank A concentration camp for Austrian Nazis has been opened at Wienerneustadt and several hundred are there already 7 , while 127 were arrested recently for refusing to obey 7 orders.

CZECH EXPENDITURE ON GERMAN ROADS

Received Feb. 21, 10.30 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 21. The Prague correspondent of the Exchange and Telegraph Agency says that Czechoslovakia is spending £210,000 on a German motor road from Breslau to Vienna and £3,250,000 on a road from Saxony to Rumania, besides subsidising German universities within her borders. The army budget has been reduced one-third.

MOUNTING FURY

GERMAN OFFICIALS ROOSEVELT’S LATEST UTTERANCE "CATASTROPHE POLITICIAN” (Independent Cable Service.) BERLIN, Feb. 20. Using the slogan "Catastrophe politician,” the Press and the radio stations have opened a smashing attack on President Roosevelt, following mounting fury within official circles at the President’s latest “madman act,” suggesting that an imminent European crisis may force him to cancel his fortnight's cruise.

“AN UPSTART”

REFERENCE TO HITLER IN UNION PARLIAMENT LABOUR MEMBER RULED OUT. CAPETOWN, Feb. 20. The Speaker in the Union Assembly thrice ruled out the Rev. Mr. Cadman, Labour member, for criticising Herr Adolf Hitler, whom he referred to as an upstart and deplored Mr. O. Pirow's visit to him.

"He is a person with whom I would not shake hands,” Mr. Cadman said.

WAR CAPACITIES

VARIOUS POWERS GERMAN PAPER’S ESTIMATE (Independent Cable Service). BERLIN, Feb. 20. The military publication “Deutsche Wehr,” estimating the relative war capacities of other Powers, gives Russia 9000 aeroplanes and 11,000,000

men; the United States 3700 aeroplanes and 2,500,000 men; Britain 6000 aeroplanes and 2,000,000 men; France 5000 aeroplanes and 5,500,000 men; Italy 4000 aeroplanes and 2,000,000 men; and Japan 2700 aeroplanes and 1,500,000 men.

The estimate of British planes is 2000 higher than last year and of Italian planes only 200 more, while France is given 300 fewer. The British figure's do not include th’a Dominions. "A reliable estimate of the armed strength of the British Empire is hardly possible,” it is stated.

POLITE BANISHMENT

CAPTAIN WIEDMANN ON WAY TO U.S.A. Received Feb. 22, 1 a.m. . BERLIN, Feb. 21. Captain Wiedmann, Hen Hitler’s former adviser, is on his way to the United States to take up the post of Consul-General at San Francisco.