Evening star., 1934-07-25

drawn up before the building marched
away.
Fey himself gave the express com
mand for them 10 withdraw His &C
ton was interpreted as perhaps being
part Of the northumberland by
the Nazis-to release the prisoners.
The police commissioner also said
that Anton Rintelen, Austrian Min
ister to Rome. will take over the
chancellorShip. A Neustaedter storm
trooper. however, said he had come
from President MiklaS to announce
that DR.. Kurt Schuschnigg. minister
of justice and education. would take
over the government and that all
other reports we're false. This threw
the whole situation into confusion
again.
1t was certain only that the mem
bers OF the Nazi putsch held gov
eminent members prisoners in the
chancellery
Although. at Fey's command. SOL
diers withdrew from the Ballhausplatz,
80 army trucks carrying machine
guns, trench mortars and other equip
ment appeared on the square before
the nearby Burgtheater. Two armored
cars and several ambulances also were
held in readiness.
1t was at this time that govern
ment leaders not in the hands Of
the Nazis gave the putSch leaders
20 minutes TO release their captiveS.
Fey Remarks Ignored.
The ultimatum was delivered by a
Neustadter Steurmer (new state storm
trooper when Fey, for the first time,
appeared on a balcony in a drizzling
rain.
Fey started to speak. without
waiting to hear what Fey had to say,
the storm trooper declared:
In the name of the government
We give you 20 minutes to evacuate
the buildingl"
Fey, pale, remained silent and, un-
der the escort of three uniformed
NaZis, turned back into the building.
All the citizens around the square
were tense and fearful as the hour
of the ultimatum came. They ex-
pected firing to begin at any mo-
ment.
Fighters swarmed through the
streets OF Vienna, men we're killed and
the trouble was reported to have
spread as far as Innsbruck and
Klagenfurt.
Machine guns were mounted on
roof tops at strategic points through
out the city. Some of them poured
smashing volleys into the government
radio studio from which, as a spark
to the political conflagration, an an
nouncement had come that Dollfuss
had resigned and a pro-Nazi poll
tician, Anton Rintelen, had been
made chancellor.
At the height of the confusion.
with rumors flying about, from the
same studio came the announcement
that peace reigned throughout Aus
tria. The second announcement came
after authorities had recaptured the
station where earlier eight men had
killed police guard and taken over
control of the broadcaSting. They
were supposed to have been Nazis.
As the afternoon wore on the situa-
ton in Vienna grew more tense, if
marched in fighting formation down
the streets. They dogged under cover
Of the buildings as they advanced to-
ward the Ballhausplatz along the
Ringstrasse.
They deployed in the side streets
and, suddenly, it could be seen that
in many cases the Federal troops had
taken up positions facing the Helm
wehr men.
Fey Shooting Denied.
A diplomat who made contact with
Prince Won Starhemberg said that the
prince assumed the leadership of
those ministers which were not i'm
prisoned n the chancellery and has
organized headquarters for them in
the ministry of defense.
This same diplomat denied rumor
that Fey had been shot and said that
at p m. Fey had talked from a win
dow at the chancellery with the police
officer in charge of the forces outside
The announcement of Dollfuss' cap
ture was made by the commander of
the Heimwehr troops which sur
rounded the federal chancellery and
demanded the liberation of Fey, a
leader of the Heimwehr.
IF Fey is not out of here in 10
minutes, we attack the officer
shouted to the guard posted at the
entrance to the chancellery.
He then turned to an Associated
Press correspondent and declared
THE entire government is impris-
oned there in the hands of the NaZis."
It was not Immediately clear how
the rival political groups were lining
up.
At the moment of this dispatch it
looks as though an armed clash may
come between the Heimwehr troops
and the police 1t was recalled that
a clash between the Heimwehr and
federal army soldiers was narrowly
averted in Graz several weeks ago.
Federal police, armed with rifles
with fixed bayonets, moved into the
ssquare in front of the federal chan
cellory in an attempt to drive the
Heimwehr troops away from the
building.
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