Evening star., 1934-02-13
ARTILLERY USED
AGAINST REBELS
Women and Children Are
Among Dead in Severe
Vienna Battles.
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the agony of battle.
Rifles and pistols blasted out death
from windows. Everywhere in the
fighting zone was felt the Jarrlng
detonations of hand grenades.
Prince Schoenburg Hartenstein, the
undersecretary of defense, issued an
appeal to all World War veterans to
rally with him to the defense of the
government.
It was as though Austria was in
state of siege.
Several hundred Socialists, prison.
ers of the troops, already had been
summoned before the authorities. The
majority of them, it was announced,
will be court-martialed with death as
the penalty of the insurrection.
Even orphans, held in an asylum in
Sankt Poelten were not spared the
horrors of war.
Socialists Surround Police.
Socialists took up their stand there.
Government troops swept in and
cleaned them out.
The police in the Kepfnerg area
were surrounded by Socialist forces.
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ing a desperate stand against an
Inhalation. Troops were ordered to
cut a path through the ring OF steel
surrounding them.
In Judenburg, government troops
captured a Socialist barricade after
bloody fighting.
While this fighting ragged, cutting
of most communications, train serv-
ice still continued with comparatively
few interruptions.
At several points, however, trains
must be detoured around certain Sec
tions of the capital Trains normally
entering Vienna through the Favor
iten and Floridsdorf sections, now
massed with fighting men, are being
halted outside
Passengers are brought into the city
by automobile to avoid these var sec
tors.
Republican Guards Barricaded.
Despite repeated troop attacks, the
Socialists retained possession of
Schlinger Court one of the largest
municipal apartment buildings in
Floridsdorf, well into the afternoon.
The republican guards, barricaded
there, apparently had plenty of am
munition for their machine guns and
the surrounding stations were barrl-
caded and held by other Socialists.
The police and soldiers appeared
to have gained control of Karl Marx
Court, but they continued their mop
ping-up action through the long
rambling corridors
The Socialist headquarters in the
Ottakring is mass of ruins after
the heavy artillery bombardment OF
the night and this morning.
Many Socialist Republican guards
men are believed buried under the
ruins.
Another fiare-up of street fighting
was expected as soon as dusk falls
tonight
Many Simple Farmers.
The government is rushing every
available reserve into Vienna Even
the Dollfuss patriotic front has been
called out for service.
Many of these men are simple
farmers arriving from the country
They are not even uniformed, but
ar merely wearing red-white-red
arm bands and carrying rifles.
The tyrolese city of Woergl. near
the German border. was menaced
from within and without this after
noon
Police, attempting to occupy the
Socialist headquarters there, were met
with rife fire. They called Inns
bruck, capital of the province, for
reinforcementS.
Meanwhile, troops of armed Social
lists from the nearby mining town of
Hearing marched out to join in the
light.
All the streets were barricaded. The
embattled police fought on all sides.
Police prepared for a heavy night
of violence.
Artillery firing continued late in the
afternoon in most of the working
class districts.
1t was unclear whether women and
children were in outer rooms of the
Karl Marx Apartment Building, a
huge structure with inner courts.
1t was presumed they had been
taken from street fats to more pro-
tected parts of the building, leaving
rifiemen and machine gunners to de-
fend the street facade. Otherwise,
many casualties were feared
22 Soldiers Among Dead.
The death toll in Southeastern
Styria Province, where fighting yes
terday centered around Graz, was es-
timated as high as SO.
At least as many were believed dead
In Upper Austria. Most of the casual
ties resulted from yesterdays opening
struggle at Socialist headquarters in
Linz
In Vienna, it was believed more may
have been slain than in either Graz
or Linz. Twenty-Five soldiers and
policemen officially were reported
slain.
Previously 81 had been estimated
slain in fighting at Eggenberg.
While the fighting was at its height,
the government struck at Socialist
political organizations. The party was
outlawed. Elected public officials
were thrown out of Office. Many
were jailed.
Vienna's burgomaSter, Karl Seitz,
was among the first to be imprisoned.
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After outlawing the Socialist party,
the government named Richard
Schmitz, social-welfare minister. as
federal commissioner for Vienna.
City Hall Is Occupied.
Otto Bauer, veteran leader of the
Socialists, was reported to have es-
eaped across the Austrian border.
Sulius Deutsche, the party's general
secretary, earlier reported jailed, also
was said to have fed.
The Vienna City Hall-symbol and
stronghold of Austrian socialism
was occupied by Fascist Heimwehr
eroops and Federal Commissar
SchmitZ.
Vienna's provincial diet and city
eounoil were dissolved
Re-enforcing the martial law proc
iamation, the government ordered
that any civilian found possessing