Evening star., 1933-10-22
D0LLFUSS ]A|[S
NA1 PRINCESS
Won Sachsen.Meiningen and
Wife Charged With Hit
Ierite Plot.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
: VIENNA, October 21.-Austria, s
chancellor, Englebert Dollfuss, locked
a Nad princess in her romantic Carin-
THAN castle tonight "for an indefinite
period" and threw her princely hus-
band into jail for six weeks.
Both Of them, Prince Won Sachsen-
Meiningen and his wife, Princess
Margd. were declared guilty of a Nazi
conspiracy against Austria
Police arrested him because his auto
mobile carried a Hitlerite flag in the
streets of klagenfurt and confiscated
discriminating documents, including a
letter to DR.. Paul Joseph Goebbels. the
German propaganda minister, from
them.
Contents Of the letter were not re-
vealed Immediately.
It was officially emphasized that Prin-
own castle and will not be permitted to
receive visitors or otherwise communi-
cate with the outside world.
Consul Barred.
And" it was added pointedly. care
will be taken to keep the German con-
sui away"
Rumors spreading meantime in Vienna
that the army garrison at Kufstein had
gone to Germany en- masse, reached
such proportions that the police warned
foreign correspondents to mot send
rumors about Kufstein demonstrations
because they are absolutely untrue"
Another prince-the Austrian Ernst
Rudiger Won Starhemberg, a Fascist
leader and vice chairman Of Chancellor
Dollfuss' patriotic front-was oratori-
cally failed by former cabinet mem
Der, Karl Hartleb, in the Syrian Diet.
The Legislature was convoked in
special session to elect a successor to
Gov. Rintelen, who will become Aus
tria's Minister to Rome.
This Starhemberg, who feels him
self the herald OF new Austria and
talks of eliminating democracy and
corruption, first squandered the in
heritance of his forefathers, then bor-
rowed heavily of the Jews, and now,
because they will not lend him more,
lets himself be financed from aboard"
Hatrleb vehemently asserted.
Princess Warned.
Prince Won SachSen- Meiningen
aroused suspicious at the police station
when he telephoned his wife at his
castle near Pitzelstaetten.
Police said they overheard him in
struct her to destroy the documents
Armed police we're rushed to the
castle. They arrested the princess and
found the documents.
Police said they found the entire
office files of the Klagenfurt District
Nazi headquarters In the castle, along
with propaganda material.
A sardonic feature Of the whole af-
fair was that the prince and princess
were two OF the many aristocratic Ger
mans expressly invited to Austria after
the war TO make Carinthia more Ger.
man"
These hundreds of thoroughly Ger
man arlstocrats and thousands of Ger
man farmers and tradesmen performed
their mission so we'll that when Ger
many became Nazi they and most of
Csrinthia became Nazi, too They re-
tained their German citizenship.
Princess Weeps.
Six detectives guarded the princess
tonight and took no chances that she
might escape.
A representative Of the Associated
Press who was permitted to telephone
the castle was told by woman friend
OF the princess that Margot bore up
well but went to her room and had
good cry"
The princess, who was born a COM
moner, Margot Groeszler, married the
prince April 25, 1881.