The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-13

Machine guns and artillery moved them down in Vienna, Linz Steyr, Bruck, Kapfenberg ant other points. The uniformed SO cIalist Schntzbund Corps fought back with machine guns, rifles, pis t0ls and bombs.
 The government appeared to be gaining the upper hand in Vienna with various socialist stronghold falling under whitening fire. Al Linz. however, the socialists were sforming the police and troops holding the Danube bridge and the garrison at Steyr, automobile cen. ter, was surrounded and beseigeo by the socialists.
 .The rebellion was difficult to put down because of the widespread activities of the socialists and their desperate resistance. As night ap- pyoached in Vienna, the combined government forces of troops, po- lice, Schultz corps and civilian volunteers were almost exhausted and faced an increasingly critical situation.
 .The socialist Schutzbund forces were obviously encouraged by the stubborn resistence of their com ~des and assumed the offensive In niimberous areas of the city, es- pecially the neighborhoods of the teeming municipally-owned apart 1rcnt houses.
 Socialists, interspersed with com munists, opened fire on patrols In what the authorities regarded as areas they had pacified.
 Motorists and pedestrians vent ufing into the embattled districts were targets for socialist snipers. The latter were aware that auth critics were communicating auto. mobiles to transport troops and reinforcements from place to place.
 Three United Press reporters working in the Ottakring and Fioridsdorf districts narrowly es- capped volleys of bullets.
 Middle class citizens uneasily suspected that despite the govern- ment's radio and press propagan- da, claiming to have the situation iii hand, the outlook was danger ops. It was believed authorities were withholding casualty lists be- cause the number of dead and wounded was 50 high that dis closure would dishearten the gov- GAhIIbCHt D
 .Cannonading, which had been sHenced in the city since 1:30 p. m, was resumed in the Heiligen- ssadt district at 5:50 D. m. Fight tug was going on in 20 districts of the city.
 sArtillery fire crashed in Vienna and at a dozen provincial points today as socialists stubbornly fought the combined forces of the state. ,
 .The government issued an ulti- rffatum that fighting must cease by bs D. m. today or sharper meas lires would be adopted.
 Authorities this afternoon an- npunced surrender of two import tant socialist strongholds here, the Rarl Marxhof, the city's largest building, and the Ottorkring dis trict socialist headquarters.
 Ut was predicted officially that collapse of the revolt here was near. As the prediction was made firing broke out in a new quarter of the city, the Erdberg district. :. !. Casualties so far were estimated ,mofficialIy at between 400 and 300 deda. including 150 to 200 here, 100 each at Linz and steyr, and from 25 to 50 each at Bruck ana Kapfenberg. ,.,ia.. The general strike the socialists declared yesterday, in anticipation of a Fascist drive that meant thelr political death, was not iranKiy revolutionary.
 Neighbor fought neighbor, war veteran fought war veteran as tne socialists, many garbed in the TOT. hidden evolutionary SchutzDuno uniform, battled police, soi9ler"' Auxiliary volunteers ana Heihi- wehr storm troopers. Government forces bombarded with light guns half a dozen soc ialist Actresses in the outer DOT tiona of the city where the work 1,,,a live while the city'S inner clrcle