The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-22
Armed Factions Worry Austria;
 Citizens Fear WarIike Outbredk
Fascists Collect Weapons in Competition with
 Socialists Corps
By WADE WERNER

By WADE WERNER
 VIENNA, March 22.-Disarmament is a big word in Austria just now, but not because of the meeting in the big glass house at Geneva.
 What worries thousands of Aus trians is the competitive armament of the socialists, "schutzbund" and the fascists' ''heimwehr.p The so- cialists are arlning against "the fascist menace, of the heimwehr and the latter doesn't deny that it is arming against the enemy on the left"
 Sober minded citizens wonder how long an explosion can be avoided.
 The prospects for an outbreak ot some sort probably were heightened bit by the recent upset in the Cabinet. When Dr. Karl Buresch chancellor, reorganized his govern ment in the closing days of Janu- ary, he dropped Johnann Schrober ex-head of the national police, ex- chancellor and now ex-foreign min ister.
 Handicap To Finance Dr. Schrober, a frank pro-Ger- man, was said to be persona nor grata to Austrias French creditors and his prominence in the govern ment was held a handicap on effort' to ease the financial burdens o the republic.
 But apart from this the social ists were glad to see him go. They had accused him of having backed the abortive "putsch" of last Sep tember and they were inclined tC blame his influence for the acquit. tai of the leaders of that attemp to seize power.
 Meanwhile the opposing piles O civil-war munitions mount higher ] Socialist newspapers repeatedl! have charged the heimwehr witt possessing large stores of arms, in cluding at least 500 machine-guns 20 field d-pieces and enough rifle and hand grenades for every actiy member.
 Police Find Arsenal
 That the schut5bund also possess es stores of arms was revealed when police raided the socialis party headquarters here, brok' down part of the cellar wall an' found 50,000 rounds of ammunition seven machine-guns, 732 rifles ant ,000 grenades.
 The hand grenades were import ant because they settled an .argu ment over whether 5000 cast iroi receptacles lab eled slubricatiol cups" had been rightly confiscate' by the police few days earlie while enroute from a stove factor to an undisclosed address. The fin ished grenades apparently had bee made from the same kind of Tub rication cups" ta Seizure of these munitions cause bitter indignation among the social ists. Wrestling "a small portion of the defense weapons of tn ] working classes from them woul not COW the workers, emphasize the "A1ibeiter -Zeitung" the morn ing after the raid.
 Train Machine Gunners
 The same journal printed eS cerpts from an Innsbruck daily con taining heimwehr announcement of machine-gun practice for mem bers.
 All of this is not exactly reas surfing to the peaceful citizen wh would like to see both sides pl away their guns. But both sids insist on security"
 The socialists don't want to dis arm without some guarantee again' a heimwehr 'iputsch." The hein
 wehr is equally insistent on sccul ity against red dictatorship.
 Another phase often used in tf
 international discussions at Genev equality in armament is croppir up every day in the arguments ovi : who shall have guns and grenade , in Austria.
 Want Army Equality "The same deal for all?' cry u socialists. And the heimwehr leat CTS exclaim:
 "An arsenal; even enough incer : diary bombs to burn down Vienn ], hidden in the socialist cellar Isn it clear now why we have to l ready?"
 - Meanwhile the newspapers prll
 columns about the information 5 disarmament conference, and no and then a discouraged citizt cynically remarks. Geneva and world peacel Hul
 After all, why shouldn't disarmi :, ment begn at home" q