The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-16
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AUSTRIA WILL
PRESS CAUSE
Chancellor Dollfuss And
Stahremberg Are Now
AT Odds
CHANCELLOR MAY TURN
TO PRINCE, IS SAID
By ROBERT II. BEST
United Press Staff Correspondent
downright, 1884. United Press)

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VIENNA, Meb. 16. (UP)-
The Austrian Socialist revolt was
dead today and the war-torn re-
public moved swiftly toward a
dictatorial Fascist state despite
isolated outbursts of firing by
faded police and troops, wearled
by four days of incessant duty.
The pittery nerves of the 10y
alist forces were set on edge
when a man clambered out of a
sewer about midnight and fired
a single shot. Police in the vici-
nifty returned the fire and short
ly troops and Heimwehr. guards
were firing all around the center
of the city. taking potshots at
imaginary foes in the darkness.
The incident was brief and in
dicative of the tension still pre-
vailing in the battle-scarred cap
ital. The Socialists guns were
stilled long before dark. how
ever, and their abortive revolu-
ton ended in complete surrender
after four days of battle here
and in the provinces with death
toll reaching possibly 1900, in
Guiding women and children.
The midnight flare-up occur.
red after more than IL hours OF
peace on all fronts. 1t was brief
and relatively unimportant to the
main picture of the crushed Soci-
alist rebellion and the opening
of the new phase in Austria's
history-the move toward Italian
Fascism under Chancellor Engel-
bert Lollfuss and Prince Ernst
Rudiger Won Starhemberg, youth
full leader of the powerful Heinz
wehr (home guards) which made
the Socialist defeat possible.
The shooting occurred between
Landstrasse and Hauptstrasse,
near Stadt park and the famous
Vienna skating ring, tie S
courts and fashionable gardens
in the heart of the once gay con-
tinental capital. The so-called
Vienna canal runs through this
district. the main sewers empty
ing into it. These offered hid
ing places to fugitive Socialists.
A United Press staff man, Har-
old Peters, arriving on the scene
shortly after the firing began,
saw soldier fall. A comrade
dragged the man behind a wall:
Military reinforcements rushed
up and the correspondent was or
dered to "turn back or we will
shoot"
The firing ended quickly but
left the capital unnerved and
restless. All police meanwhile,
except those required for skel-
eton patrol were released from
duty to sleep soundly for the
first time since the rebellion be-
gan last Monday, after clashes at
Linz, capital of upper Austria.
Is miles northwest of the capt.
tai. -,
Won Starhemberg seized the
moment of victory to make
stirring speech in favor of a
rapid turn to the Italian Fascist
style of government in unified
Fascist state. :,
The youthful prince declared
that the Austrian-Fascist steam
roller would not be allowed to
slow down. In funeral Grafton
at Linz, the prince declared:
eve will not allow ourselves
to be sent home after we have
shed our blood to save Austria
from Bolshevism."
He frankly intimated that the
Heimwehr which he controls is
going to demand an increased IN
fluence in the government. Won
Starhemberg boldly denou n d
parliamentary politicians, regard
Continued on page four.)