The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-26
ITALY MASSES TROOPS At BORDER
ASNAZIS FIGHT AUSTRIAN FORCES
Starhemberg Emerging as
New Leader of Austria in
Revolt Crisis.
DEATH Is FACING IA
Outbreaks Reported From
Various Parts of Seeth-
ina Nation.
BY STEWART BROWN
United Press staff Correspondent
lConYright. 1924 BY United PrnSsl

Copyright, 1884. by United Press
VIENNA, July &c. - Aus
trian troops battled Nazis in
the province of upper Syria
and other parts of the coun-
try today as the government
made a smashing drive
against terrorists.
Police officially announced be-
tween fifteen and twenty soldiers
were killed in action in upper
Syria. where the main fighting was
in progress. No figures we're given
for Nazi casualties, but it was be-
lieved they would be as great or
greater.
At Deutschlandburg, police an
nounced six dead and twelve seri-
ously wounded when troops recap
tured the town from Iazis who
seized it last night after announce
r1ent of the assassination of Chan
cellor Elgelbert Dollfuss in Vienna.
Three deaths were reported at
Steinz, which the military captured
after severe fighting.
Fourteen Wounded at Graz
The villages of Broesing and Ey-
biswald still were in the hands of
the Nazis, police said. The insur-
gents in the two villages numbered
between 400 and 500 and we're WE'LL
armed with rifles, pistols and ma
chine guns.
The Nazis at Lansberg seized the
postoff1ce but evacuated it after
brief fight
The city of Graz reported four
teen wounded, many of them seri-
ously, brought to hospitals from
surrounding districts, where Nazis
were fighting the troops,
The cabinet, under Vice-Chan-
cellor Prince Ernst Rudiger Won
Starhemberg, established a military
court to try those involved in the
assassination of Chancellor DOLL
fuss. Hangings we're almost certain
to result. and just as inevitably will
provide fuel for further Nazi repri-
sails.
Mrs. Dollfuss at Bier
While Mrs. Dollfuss, arriving by
plane from Italy, knelt in tears at
the bier of her husband in the
chancellory, the cabinet met and
voted the military court and other
measures. HeimWehr circles said
Starhemberg had been designated
chancellor, but the foreign Office
and others said he was merely act
ing chancellor, and had not been
designated to form a cabinet.
The government" Starhemberg
told the cabinet, will continue as
before in a common front to realize
the task the Dollfuss regime set it,
sell and carry on the heritage Of
our chancellor, murdered in such
horrible fashion"
Starhemberg was dressed in the
uniform Of the HeimWehr, which he
heads. The cabinet unanimously
adopted his proposals
The government ordered the sus-
pension Of all street car service be-
tween 10 o'clock tonight and early
tomorrow morning. Restaurants,
cafes and all other public buildings
must close at 8 p. m. No thee.ters,
movies, concerts or dances viii bc
permitted in what used to be gay
Vienna"
1t was believed that Starhemberg,
of one of the proudest lineages in
Europe, owner of thirty-six castles,
and called "the happy prince"
might emerge as the country's die
tator in succession to Dollfuss, who
bled to death in the hands of his
Nszi captors in the chancellory
building last night.
Dollfuss was fifth to die in ths
revolt. The sixth death came today
when Anton Rintelen, Austrian
minister to Rome, committed sui
eide.
Shoots Self in Lung
When Nazis announced over the
radio yesterday that Dollfuss had
resigned they named Rintelen as his
successor. Believing him the spir-
itual father of the revolt, the gov
eminent arrested him last night.
At a. m. today he shot himself
in the lung near the heart. He was
taken to clinic where he died. He
left a note: Il am innocent"
Dollfuss lay today, white sheet
covering his diminutive body, on a
conference table in the chancellory.
Black flags few throughout the city
and church bells tolled in requiem.
His widow and her little children
came from Italy from the summer
home Of Premier Benito MuSsolinlof
Italy, where DollfuSS was to haYa
been a guest this week -end.
Starhemberg Is Leader
President Wilhelm Miklas arrived
from a vacation. Starhemberg and
Major Emil Fey, national security
commissar, went into conference
with him. Starhemberg was emerg-
ing as the leader Kurt SchuSch-
nigg was acting chancellor, but
Starhemberg as ice-chancellor au-
tematically became acting chancellor
on his return.
Kurt Reith, German minister,
left for Berlin by airplane-recalled
by his government for offering the
Nazi revolters safe refuge in Ger
many.
AS devout Roman Catholics
emerged from Angelus services this
morning, church bells all over the
country began tolling, by order Of
Cardinal Innitzer, archbishop Of
Austria, in mourning for the little
chancellor.