The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-02-16
Wholesale Fighting
Is Ended in Austria
Tenacious Socialists, However,
Open Guerrilla War on
Home Guards
LAUNCH SABOTAGE DRIVE
Other European Nations Keep
Anxious Watch; Fear Con-
troll by Nazis
by the Associated Press)

by the Associated Press,
Wholesale fighting was at an end
In strife-torn Austria Friday but the
tenacious Socialists began . campaign
Of guerrilla warfare against The Fas-
cist home guard, backbone Of govern
ment support.
Reports were circulated that Chan
cellor Engelbert Dollfuss, "gamecock"
Of European politics, had been the
subject Of IN assassination attempt.
along with Vice Chancellor Emil Fey
and Prince Ernst Won Starhemberg.
home guard leaders. The rumors
were unverified.
Socialist leaders called for acts Of
sabotage.
Other European nations, mean
while, closely scanned the Austrian
situation, which they considered
fraught with danger to European
tranquility, especially should the
Nazis gain control.
To avoid this. France and Czecho-
slovakia decided to give the Dollfuss
government non-military aid.
Reports were current In Rome that
italy might demand an investigation
by the League Of Nations Of pub
lished charges that Czechoslovakia
supported the Socialist uprising by
shipping arms and ammunition into
Austria.
Press attacks on Czechoslovakia,
the foreign office admitted, repre-
sented the Italian governments
view.
Csechs Enter Denial
DR.. Edouard Benes. Czechoslovakian
foreign minister, issued q flat denial
In Paris that his government had
supported the Socialist outbreak In
any fashion.
The charges, he told the Associated
Press, ARE absolutely without foun-
dation."
Rebels Driven Underground
Driven underground into the sew
ers Of Vienna, the scattered forces
Of the fleeing Socialist Republican
guard were fighting desperate guer-
rilla warfare. still disputing the au-
thority Of the Austrian government.
The secret passages into the roomy
sewers. which honeycomb the ground
under Vienna, were ways Of escape for
defeated garrisons of the municipal
apartment blocks shelled by govern
ment artillery Tuesday. Wednesday
and Thursday.
Now the sewers themselves have be-
come Z last stronghold for these
fighters.
Thursday night Socialist riflemen
emerged from manholes In the Stadt
Park district-though it was officially
stated that there had been no fight
ling in Vienna since Thursday noon
and terrified foreign residents who
were kept awake by the clanor and
tho gunfire as the Socialists skir-
mished with police.
Friday morning al seemed quiet
but the underground army-no one
knows how large 1t is-still was Turk
ing In the sewers.
The skirmish In Stadt Park broke
out before dawn at . point where
tho River Vein flows out Of tunnel
opposite the Kursalon.
Awakened by Firing
Residents Of this district told the
Associated Press they were awakened
by what sounded like machine gun
fire not more than 100 yards from
their windows.
More distant explosions to the east
they said, sounded like hand grenades
although others who lost sleep be-
cause Of the uproar insisted they
heard light artillery fire.
The principal entrances to the vi
enna sewers are little metal huts re-
sembling ktosks. One enters through
q doorway and climbs down . ladder
on the street level. ventilator OPEN
ings in the middle Of the walls are
large enough to permit pistol firing
BY men climbing up from the sewer.
Manhole covers In the streets also
can be lifted and fire can be directed
from these.
There are tens Of thousands Of these
manhole openings IN Vienna.
From an eyewitness. the Associated
Press learned that approximately 70
Republican guards participated IN the
6tadt Park skirmish.
The Socialist fighters emerged from
the sewers and began the battle BY
attacking police ct . substation In the
neighborhood. It was said.
Then. after exchanges Of between
50 and 100 volleys with the police, thu
guards retreated through Stadt Parl
and escaped UNDERGROUND.