Evening star., 1934-02-25
DOllfuss Said
Ready to Give
Up Power.
EXPECTED COUP
LIKELY TODAY
Heimwehr Move
Toward Border
Is Secuted.

(copyright 1884. by the Associated Press0
VIENNA, February pa march
on Vienna" by the pro-government
and Fascist Heimwehr was reported
imminent tonight as dozens Of fresh
" fueled trucks carrying home
euardsmen rolled out Of town for an
unannounced destination.
Rumors were that Heimwehr lead
ers would concentrate their men in
outlying towns and converge on the
capital to seize the government reins
tomorrow, with Chancellor Dollfuss
acquiescing to the movement as King
Victor Emmanuel did when Benito
Mussolini marched on Rome.
The fact that Vienna was plastered
with green and white portrait posters
of Prince Won Starhemberg, Heinz
wehr commander, and Vice Chancel-
lor Emil Fey, a Heimwehr chieftain,
was considered as strengthening the
reports
Guardsmen Uninformed.
The home guardsmen had orders to
carry rations for three days, but were
not told in advance what their OBJ
jective would be.
There were comments that they
might be bound for the Austro-Ger-
man border. as precaution against
the massing of NaZis in Germany, but
inquiries at frontier points revealed
no concentrations on either side.
Gan official statement issued in Ber-
lin said reports published in Austria
and the United States regarding the
gathering of Nazis on the border were
"the purest fabrication and represent
one of the customary contemplate
attempts to bring the German Reich
into disrepute.
Every public telephone booth and
every street car in Vienna had pos
ters of Fey and Won Starhemberg
Shop windows, billboards, buildings,
stations and other structures bore
the placards.
Rumors Fly.
Meanwhile, there we're many other
rumors-which were described as
nothing more than rumors:
That Won Starhemberg sought a
conference with the exiled former
Empress Zita; that DR.. Karl Buresch,
finance minister, was about to he
thrown out of the cabinet; that
Chancellor Dollfuss and Undersecre-
tary Suvich of Italy were conferring
about an Austrian Hungarian Italian
military and economic alliance.
Meanwhile, the health and position
of President Miklas aroused comment
In political circles.
He was upset considerably by the
hanging recently of a tramp under
a martial law edict, and the recent
Socialist uprising and bloody civil
war were know to have depressed him
so much that he appeared anxious to
resign.
A Dollfuss decree ousting Socialists
from Office affects Miklas and DR..
Buresch In some degree. Miklas was
elected with the help Of Socialist
votes and DR.. Buresch has democratic
sympathies.
"Maneuvers" Motive Given.
A perfunctory explanation given
FOR the departure Of Heimwehr troops
was that they were going into the
country for a day or two for held
naneuvers," but this did not stop the
how of runors that there was to be
a march on Vienna, MuSsollni-Styie'
with Prince Starhemberg as the con-
quering hero.
Still another version of the de-
parture was that the Heimwehr was
planning a show of force in the
provincial capitals, one after the
other; and again it was reported
(still unverifled) that so much frlc-
ton was developing between the
Heimwehr and the police, regular
army troops and Catholic storm
troops that Vice Chancellor Fey
deemed it wise to get them out OF
town for a while.