Evening star., 1934-07-28
Rome Uneasy;
Watches Crisis
to Intervene.
DETERMINED TO
PRESERVE RULE
Newspaper Scores
Hitler's Action as
TWO-Faced.

(copyright. 1894. by the Associated Press)
ROME, July ga second wave OF
Italian troops started northward to-
day to support $4,000 men now con-
centrated on the Austrian border, the
Associated Press has learned.
These reinforcements are not on
the border, but are within striking
distance Of it. They were sent UP
from military posts in the South to
corps headquarters at Bolzano, Udine
and Trieste.
Oficial military circles demonstrated
great uneasiness today as reports from
Austria showed the Na1 revolution
still famed.
Italian cities from Florence on the
South and particularly Rome present
an unusual appearance. Normally
every fourth man appears to be in
uniform, but now about the only uni
forms visible on streets are those Of
Fascist juvenile organizations.
Officers and soldiers have moved
north, most of them into training
camps and other posts near the
frontier.
Tourist Route Changed.
Travel agencies and the American
Consulate are advising American
tourists going to Germany to avoid
Austria and travel through Switzer-
land.
Premier Mussolini named Giacomo
De Martino, the former italian Am
bassador to Washington, to represent
him at the funeral of the late Chan
cellor DollfuSs.
Last night a theater audience
jeered and hissed when a news reel
picture Of Chancellor Hitler of Ger
many appeared on the screen.
The German embassy is constantly
guarded by several dozen uniformed
police and detectives.
A government spokesman said the
morning news from Austria was not
alarming but that the Italian govern
ment was watching the situation with
the greatest attention and was pre-
pared to act any moment.
Premier Mussolini is represented as
feeling that any further diplomatic
overtureS can serve no useful purpose.
He appeared determined today to lend
a prompt hand If he feels the situa-
ton warrants.
Fear Funeral Outbreak.
Spokesmen for the government,
however, insist that Intervention is
not necessarily imminent. They are
watching Vienna with a particularly
keen eye today, fearful that the fu-
neral of DollfusS may prove the match
to set of new disorders.
Government spokesmen express the
hope that the Austrians will be able
to settle their own affairs, but they
make it plain that whether the Nazi
menace" comes from within or with
out Austria, Italy does not intend to
permit Nazis to gain the upper hand.
Reports that Italian troops had al
ready crossed the frontier into Carin-
thia, Austria, where fighting is under
way, were emphatically denied. (Such
reports we're received yes
terday at Belgrade)
The declaration of Prince Ernst Won
Starhenberg, head of the Austrian
government, in Vienna last night, that
no concessions which infringe Austrian
liberty would be made to Naziism was
received here with strong applause.
Starhemberg's pledge to follow
faithfully policies of the late Chan
cellor Dollfuss is viewed as particu-
larly reasSuring, coming as it did after
announcement that Franz Won Papen,
Germany's vice chancellor, would be
sent to Vienna in peace gesture.
Hitler Denounced.
The authoritative newspaper Popolo
De Roma called Hitler's letter ap-
pointing Won Papen "one of the most
singular diplomatic documents of our
times" printing today scathing at
tack on Hitler, who only a few weeks
ago was Mussolni's guest in Venice
In Italy and Europe we all know
that since the day the Nazis took
power the Reich has been involved in
the internal Austrian question" the
paper said Now we hear to our
astonishment that Der Fuehrer (Hit-
ler) knew nothing about It.
Der Fuehrer was unaware that his
heutenants plotted, what Nazi news
papers printed and what German
radio stations broadcast. Truly, never
before has the right hand been so
thoroughly ignorant Of what the lett
hand was doing"
The paper declares Hitler either
went back on promises not to inter-
fere in Austrian affairs or was unable
to maintain them.
We in Italy" the newspaper con-
cludes. hold the world has need of
dictators. but We do not mean die
tatorS who lie nor dictators who have
no power"