The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-31
RE-ARMINC OF AUSTRIA AND
STRONGER BORDER DEFENSE
FOR BELCIANS DISCUSSED
Belgian Defense Minister And Premier Conclude That
Eastern Frontier Fortifications Must Be Made More
Adequate at Once; U. S. Army Appropriations Held
up Pending Outcome of Geneva Conference -
PARIS. Aug. 3l-(UP).-Spe-

PARIS. Aug. 3l-(UP).-Spe-
ci6e plans to re.arm Austria and
strengthen .Belgium's eastern de-
fenses were discussed today by
European statesmen, increasingly
alarmed at the policies and pro-
nouncements of German Chancel-
lor Adolf Hitler and the activities
of his Maxi followers.
Count do Broqueville, Belgian
premier. and Albert Dveze, his
defense minister, after consider
ing Hitler's speech at Rudesheim
Sunday, were understood to have
decided that Belgium must in
crease materially and at once her
eastern Notifications.
Though officials were reticent
on details, it was reported their
plans called both for strengthen
ing the present garrisons and tho
building of new forts.
Paris was the center for a Eu-
rope-wide discussion of re-arming
Austria against the menace Of
Nazi control.
The possibility of adding 5000
men to Austria's army. bringing
it up to i its full authorized
strength of 10000 under the St.
German treaty, was a strong prob
ability today.
Foreign Minister Joseph Paul
BSncour planned to confer first
with Premier Edousrd Daladier
and then with the ambassadors Of
Spain, Italy and Great Britain re-
garding Austria's defenses.
aul.Bopceur held a prelimi-
nary discussion of the planned in
crease with the ambassadors Of
Britain. Spain. Italy and Belgium
Then he received news
of; the Incident at Innsbruck, Aus
tria, where. three men chloro-
formed jailSrs and rescued from
prison Franz Hofer, Austrian Nazi
chief. for the Tyrol-Vorasberg dis
trict.t ~ y"
Opinion generally was that this
abduction would force France 20
extend the fullest support at once
to the plan to enlist 5000 addi-
tional Austrian soldiers.
NUREMBERG. Germany, Aug.
31.-(UP).-Triumphantly domi-
nant over Germany's destinies,
100000. Nazis damned ancient
Nuremberg today for a four-day
party convention that may write
flaming page in Europe's his
tory.
With Europe alarmed at the
virility of the Nazi movement and
the bluntness of his talk, Chan
cellor Adolf Hitler, revered almost
as a god, is due to make two
speeches and issue a party procla-
nation.
In addition. Hitler's chief ex-
pert on foreign affairs. Alfred
Rosenberg. will deliver a report
on foreign policy that offers hope
of liquidating the Austrian crisis
or the threat of further isolating
Germany from the rest of Europe.
In $50 special trains and by
every other means of transport,
party members, storm troopers,
Hitler youth, and auxiliaries
poured into Nuremberg like an
army, cheering above the peal Of
the old church bells that rang out
in welcome to them.
Hitler arrived last night after
, an automobile journey from Mu-
Mich. All along the road he was
acclaimed like a conquering gem
eral. Crowds gathered at the
roadside to cheer him Historically
while bells rang in his honor.
! Hermann Goering, Prussian
minister of interior; Paul Goeb-
bells. minister of propaganda;
Ernest Roehm, commander in
chief of all Nazi military actiyi-
ties and Ritter E. Won Epp, reich
governor of Bavaria and Hitler's
confidential adviser on military
matters, accompanied him. All
are of the Nazi inner circle.
Hitler. scorning the castle Of
fered him for his headquarters,
elected to live in a tent in. the
middle of those occupied by the
100000 storm troopers and CO.
900 Hitler youths.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 81 (UP)
Secretary of War Dern said today
the proposed ALLEGATION of $780,
100000 from the public works
funds for building military air
craft and mechanizing the. army
had been indefinitely postponed
by President Roosevelt pending
the outcome Of the world disarn-
ament conference at Geneva,