The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-02-23

row, and the rather
frightened members of
Great Britain, determined that Ger
many and Austria shall not be united,
was warning Hitler to keep his hands
off. Soviet Russia would like to put
finger in the pie but is fully occu-
pied with the threat of war with
Japan.
Vice Chancellor Emil Fey and Prince
Ernst Won Starhemberg of Austria
were determined that the Socialists
should be driven out or exterminated
and the country made wholly Fascist,
and Chancellor Dollfuss was going
along with them. The revolt of the
Socialists was evidently carefully
planned and the rebels were well
armed and capably led. But at this
writing they had won no victory Of
moment and their strongholds in
Vienna, mainly the huge communist
apartment buildings, had been smashed
by the government artillery. In Linz,
oA0tAy 0lCyl anu OLllCl NCAIClD thC AC-
suits were the same. After several
days of fighting, in which two or three
thousand persons were killed and
many more wounded, Dollfuss gave the
Socialists five hours in which to lay
down their arms on promise Of par
don except for the chief leaders. This
brought insufficient response, and the
government troops went into action
again in the suburbs to which the
rebels had been driven. The latter
met the attack stoutly, especially in
the section just across the great
Reichsbridge where they were occupy
ing big buildings and trenches Major
Fey was in charge of the operations
in and about Vienna, and Prince Won
Starhemberg was in command at Linz
and Steyr.
Though the German government was
not openly mixing in the mess, the
official Nazi newspapers were egging
on the Austrian Socialists. Hitler and
his comrades claim that a majority
of the Austrian voters are Nazis and
prophecy that the time is near when
Dollfuss will fall and the Austrian
NaZis will be in control. The whole
tone of comment in the German press
expressed sympathy with the mis-
led'' workers of Austria, and the
League of Nations and it's members
were warned not to interfere in the
struggle.
Reports originating in Paris said 75,-
900 Italian troops had been massed at
strategic points along the Austrian
frontier and that they and the Fascist
frontier guard were ready for any
eventuality. The Italian government
officials said this troop movement had
been going on for some time and was
only part of fundamental change in
Italian military policy.
London correspondents dug up a
story, from an Austrian source, to the
effect that the Austrian Socialists OBJ
tanned the arms with which they had
been fighting from Czechoslovakia,
either from the Czech government di-
rect or with it's connivance. A railroad
from Prague to the south runs
through a part Of Austria, and the
story goes that trains loaded with
arms and ammunition consigned to
some place in Czechoslovakia were
emptied of their cargoes somewhere
between Gemundt and Pressburg.
It is also alleged that arms have
been shipped up the Danube from
Pressburg to Vienna or nearby points
and Struggled ashore.
Czechosloyakia doesn't at all like
the idea of being surrounded by Fas-
cist countries and has been encourag-
ing democratic movements against
both the German and Austrian dicta-
torships. Prague is full of refugee
Socialists
TNEN days in jail was the sentence
A pronounced by the senate on Will
liam P. MacCracken for having tam
pered with correspondence In his files