San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-11
HITLER' S MEN
ST|R TROUBLE
IN VIE N N 4
Munich Leader Has Fol-
Mi lowers Throughout
N Austria.
HE breaches HATE
Little Known a Year Ago,
!, Rise Has Been Like
Mussolini's.
HE breaches HATE
RY NORMAN II. MATSON.

.s. BY Nuhh-tN II. tt<hA Co-Ns
Copyricht, by The San Antonio Light
~ Vienna, March 10.-Adolph Hitler's
young men are busy decorating Wen
ma with flaming red posters calling all
true patriots to anti-Jewish mass
meetings. Adolph Hitler is the Munich
Mussolini. He is a power and a dam
ger there. In Vienna, however, his
followers for all their determination
and ingenuity, are having a difficult
time Of it. ..-.
Five thousand took part in their
first parade. 1t was the usual Fas-
cisti procession, young men in bright
1y colored student caps, swinging stout
clubs, a scattering of women; middle
aged men with faces Scared from
student duelling days brass bands and
banners. 1t was impressive and tine
leaders were jubilant. A few days later
the labor unions as reply closed
down every factory, office and store
at noon and paraded 100000 men
and women through the city. The pro-
cession started at 1 o'clock and at D
marchers were still plodding past the
Parliament building. Among the
inarchers were companies of uniformed
men-the Social Democratic guards"
wearing gray-green uniforms those of
the communists wore Russia blouses
and caps Of blue and boots.
nIf Give Away Cigarettes.
. Hitler's followers-they call them
selves national socialists" redoubled
their activities. They evidently have
plenty of money. though it would be
difficult to discover where it comes
from.
\. One of their tactics is to distri-
butte cigarettes at their propaganda
greetings. AS smokable cigarettes
Cost 800 crowns each. the gift of even
zone is likely TO be thoroughly appre-
tiated. They give food. too. on oc-
icSs:ons, and their poster war is winged
constantly. "Down with the Jews y
irriose ranks against the Eastern
,lcws." SO cry their posters. Now they
&c beginning TO print the names OF
AnStria's richest men. 8. .-...
ili So far. however. the appeals Of the
irrational socialists" to force have
been nullifiPd by force. Every i'm
rortant meeting called by them has
been broken upon by strong-arm
squads of the unions. When a meet
jpg is announced for seven, they ar
Rive at six and occupy half the seats.
THE first words of the. first speaker
are the signal, for a riot; the police
interv>le and the meeting ends be-
fore It Is begun. The national social
lists are partial to stout canes and
y short pieces of rubber hose. loaded
with lead. OF these the unionists have
already captured an impressive num-
Der.
Both Sides Drilling.
AZ With the expectation that these first
minor clashes will lead TO far more
serious encounters, both sides aIe as
siduously drilling and learning what
there is to be learned about head
breaking.
But the Austrian socialists are not
only using force to fight Hitler. They
are giving much publicity TO the new
Familiar charge that Hitler has re-
ceived large sums of money from
France in payment of his outspoken
opposition TO the united trout and
passive resistance program OF the
German government. For the time, the
advance of Hitler's Fascist has been
checked in Vienna.
A. Hitler himself is a striking person.
atty. His rise to notoriety and t, the
possession of wide influence has been
as rapid as that of Mussolini in Italy.
He was little known a year ago, al
though in 1919, after the collapse of
the socialists he had begun his pro.
paganda activities. He is Austrian
birth and won two iron crosses in the
war. He is in his thirties, of me:ium
height, his features sharp. He is q
forceful orator; his phrases leap like
lightning" and he emphasizes them by
gestures with his. clinched fists. He
docs not say anything new. His
theme never .changes-down with the
Jews, down with all those who are
less than 100 per cent German. down
with the socialists, But what he SAYS
he says passonately. He is firebrand
and his followers are as fanatically
and exultantly loyal as those of Mus
splini. They are in great majority sons
Of the middle class and these young
men who just missed the joys of the
war.
Adolf Hitler will probably be more
and more frequently in the news. He
breaches hate. He eouldt preach any
thing more popular in Europe