The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-07-25
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Public BeWildered
As HeimWehr Chief
Announces 'PutSch'
Fey Captures Dollfuss


The announcement of Dollfuss' cap
ture was made by the commander of
the HeimWel1r troops which surround
ed the federal chancellory and de.
manded the liberation of Emil Fey,
minister without portfolio In the cab
met and leader of the Heimwetr.
IT Fey is not here In ten minutes,
We attack" the officer shouted to
the guard posted at the entrance to
the chancellory.
He then turned to an Associated
Press correspondent and declared:
"The entire government Is i'm
prtsoned there In the hands Of the
Nazis."
Machine guns were Immediately
posted at strategic points on the roofs
OF buildings throughout the city.
It was not Immediately clear how
the rival political groups were lin
ing up.
At the moment Of this dispatch 1t
looks as though an armed clash may
come between Heimwehr troops and
the police. It was recalled that q
clash between the Heimwehr and fed
eral army soldiers was narrowly avert
ed In Graz several weeks ago.
First Casualties Counted
Federal police, armed with rifles
with fixed bayonets, moved into the
square In front Of the federal cham
cellory in an attempt to drive the
Heimwehr troops away from the
building.
As this was being written. shortly
after 2:30 p. M, shooting had not
commenced but rifle fire could be
heard from the direction Of the radio
broadcasting studio In the inner city.
Before the fighting had long been
under way, 1t was definitely estab-
lished that one person had been killed
and several wounded. These reports,
for obvious reasons, were incomplete.
The business district was paralyzed.
Shop owners had pulled down the
steel shutters over their windows.
The branch postoffice near the
chancellory was being used as a mu-
milton depot. From 1t, cartridges we're
distributed to the police.
Although machine guns were posted
outside the ministry Of war, they
were not Immediately called into ac-
ton.
Machine guns posted on top Of the
finance ministry, however, roared out,
pouring bullets into the Austrian radio
broadcasting studio nearby from
which the announcement had been
made Of Dollfuss' resignation"
Meanwhile it was reported from
Klagenfurt, Carinthia, that the fed
eral army had taken prisoner Wilhelm
Miklas. the president Of Austria, who
Is summering in that city.
The commanders Of the Heimwehr
troops declared they were fighting
against Nazi "putsch." However, all
an outsider could see was that the
police and federal troops were IN
control Of the Ballhausplatz in front
Of the federal chancellory. It was re-
ported that the putsch began when
eight men, wearing Heimwehr uni
forms as . Disguise
forced their way into the radio studio
and killed the police inspector on
guard there.
Force Radio Announcement
At the point Of their pistols, they
then are supposed to have forced the
br0adcaster to announce over the
microphone that Dollfuss had re-
signed and Rintelen had been made
chancellor.
The studio was riddled with bullets
from the machine guns, but q radio
program went on. The defenders Of
the studio played a dance record that
III who were tuned IN might hear.
i was reported that q general mob
iliSatiou order had been issued at
Heimwehr headquarters.
A battalion Of the regular army
With fun field equipment. many q the