The Washington times., 1934-07-28
AUSTRIAN PRESIDENTS SON IS AN ENTHUSIASTIC H4ITLER|TE
100000 See Dollfuss
Buried; Vienna Held
BV Anxious Gloom

the direct charge Of murder at
Berlin. He was the Austrian
spokesman, and Austria could al
ford audacity because Won Star
hemberg knew that behind Austria
today is the civilized world.
Nazi Are Desperadoes
Hitler has proffered the hand
Of peace toward Austria. Hitler
wanted Austria. The Austrian
NaziS were his instruments. Today
Hitler feels the blood of Dollfuss
is too great a weight for him to
carry and he has offered to send
Won Papen as his envoy to this
country, and he has expressed in
his letter to Won Papen his abhor'
renee of the murder of DollfuSs.
But Austria, through Won Star
hemberg, reacted to Hitler thus in
a broadcast to the Austrian
people:
National Socialists are ma
tional BOlsheviks. Austria is q
barrier against twentieth cen
tury barbariSm. The Nazis are
desperadOes. Austria will never
compromise with National So
Cialists. Rigorous justice will
be done to those guilty Of the
death Of DolIfuSS."
BERLIN Is BLAMED
These are the low points in his
indictment of Hitler, but Won Star
hemberg grew more pointed:
efforts Of certain elements
outside of Austria to shake off
responsibility will be without
avail"
Herewith Won starhembere
nailed Berlin'S guilt for the kill
ing Of Dollfuss. Again he said
1--WE will wait for declara-
tiOns. Austria was never re-
SpOnsibIe for conflicts with Ger
many. It will not be our fault
if we do not get better rela-
tions with Germany. But Aus
tria must be hard. We are
willing to forget the past but
we reject the slightest foreign
influence on the freedom and in
dependence Of Austria"
Won Starhemberg's voice broke
as he ended:
"DOIlfuss died for Austria"
No one who listened to the speech
could fail to be affected by his
downright sincerity.
Called German Legation
All this means that the Austrian
government has already prepared
a full indictment to prove German
responsibility for the assassination
of Doilfuss.
Most significant are the new
details revealed today from a
prisoner, a Naxi arrested in the
chancellery the day Dollfuss was
killed.
AS international News Service
learned first hand, the first act
Of the Nazi instructors was to
commander the telephone girl Of
the chancellery to establish con
nectionS with the outside world.
Five Nazi braves stood around
her with drawn revolvers and
their first order was to connect
them with the German legation.
That was the first conversation of
Dollfuss' SlayerS with the outside
world.
Higher Up Help
The entire band Of 144 des-
peradoes averaged less than 20
years old. Their leader was un
der 80. Austria considers it quite
incredible that such youngsters
could have planned a compli-
Gated conspiracy to overthrow
the government.
They obviously were tools Of
higherups. Won Starhemberg has
made it plain that Vienna be-
lieves these higherups were in
Munich and Berlin.
A curious Sidelight on the ideal
ism Of the Nazi rebels is pro
vided by the fact told the Inter
national News Service by one Of
Austria'S prisoners in the chan
celery.
The Nazis said that they
fought to free Austria" but one
Of them stole 16 schillings from
the desk of President Miklas.