The Washington times., 1934-08-04
VIENNA To SEND
ACCUSATION
To LEAGUE
Government Silent on Action
on Won Papen; Secret
Notes Are Cited
By ALFRED TYRNAUER
(Copyright, 1884. BY International
NewR SerVicel

fCopyright 1884, BY International
News Service)
VIENNA, Aug. 4 UN.SO.
Charges that high officials Of the
Hitler government in Germany
encouraged and supported last
weeks Nazi putsch which led to
the assassination Of Chancellor
Dollfuss and cost more than 100
lives are contained in q .docu-
ment the Austrian government Is
soon to publish.
This document, international
News Service learned today. is to
be submitted to the League of
Nations and to the British,
French and Italian foreign Of
fices because those three powers
publicly proclaimed their inten-
tion Of maintaining the indie
pendence Of Austria.
The documents, based on an
investigation just concluded by
General WinterStein, will be pub
iShed within fortnight in the
form of a brown book"
Plotted In Munich
They charge that last weeks
putsch was organized at Munich
with the knowledge and suffer
ance Of the highest German Off
cials.
Large quantities of explosives
and hand grenadeS, undoubtedly
Of German origin and some bear
ing German Army labels, were
found in the possession Of cap
tured Austrian Nazis. the govern
ment win allege.
Many courierS have been inter
cepted, carrying instructions from
Munich TO Nazi leaders in provin-
cial cities with specific plans for
the Austrian Nazi uprising, it is
asserted.
It is even limited that the aSsas-
Sination Of Chancellor Dollfuss
was carried out according to plans
outlined in Munich.
Whether any mention will be
made Of the fact that letters from
Vice Chancellor Won Papen of Ger.
many were found in possession Of
an arrested NaZi leader in Carin-
thia could not be learned today.
But the government continued to
withhold approval Of Won Papen'S S
appointment by Hitler as Minister
to Austria, even though Hitler had
agreed to send Won Papen to
Vienna as a regularly accredited
diplomat of the Reich govern
ment, instead Of as his personal
envoy as he first contemplated.
Government officials are con-
vinced Of the guilt of Germans in
the Nazi putSch and expect that
diplomatic representations viii be
made at Berlin by British, French
and Italian ENJOYS.
Certain Of Guilt
Some indication Of the feeling
Of Nazi Germany'S guilt were
found in the speech Chancellor
Kurt Schuschnigg delivered today
to the lower Austrian agricultural
council, which held memorial Serv-
ices for the murdered Dol1fuSS.
He said:
"When Chancellor DOl1fuSS'
enemies saw that words were
futile they tried to subject Aus
fria to economic measures that
would ruin the country.
"'When DOllfuSS successfully
defended his country and inn
prOvement in the economic stu
alton became noticeable they
tried explosives. We shall con-
tinuO to defend Austria and
know we shall be victorious. We
want peace and not war. We
shall apply the law In drastic
fashion, but Austria will remain
the last bulwark Of German
law"
The government newspaper
ReichspoSt, which is also the or"
gan of the Catholic Church, de-
MED today, presumably, from
Vatican sources, a Berlin report
that the negotiations between
Germany and the Vatican for a
concordat had nearly been Uon-
cluded.
Such an agreement, under pres
ent circumstances, is out OF queS'
tion, the ReichSpoSt said.
Army Rule to Go
It was officially announced to-
day that martial law will soon be
abolished in Vienna and the
provinces.
A military court will try the
rest of the IA NaZis who partt-
cipated in the July Is raid on the
chancellory and strict courts-mar-
tial will remain competent in
other terrorist cases but other
Nazi offenders will be brought
before ordinary tribunals.
A German newspaper CORE
Spondent, Erik BorSchert, who
represented several German pa
perS, was arrested at Sal1burg
today. He was accused Of being
q member Of group that bomb
ed the Trinity Monument at Salz-
burg.
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