The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-17
AUSTRIA ALL EXCITED

Vienna, Austria, Oct. 17.-(UP)- Heimwehr troops from lower Aus tria (the eastern half of the coun- try including Vienna marched on tie capital today as the cabinet re- siJned to eliminate several Heim- wehr leaders.
 As the cabinet met, the govern nnent palace was heavily guarded and machine guns were posted at the official radio station, always a tssrget for seizure in event of a pItsch.
 The Heimwehr Cor home army 1cd by Prince Ernst Rudiger von starhemberg, is violently anti-Nazi and pro-fascist along Italian lines as opposed to German Naziism.
 Diplomatic quarters believed the reconstruction of. the cabinet and the elimination among others of Maj. Emil Fey, acting interior min- 1ster and rabid leader of the Vienna Heimwehr, means internationally Alstria's closer approach to Britain, France and the league of nations in the present international crisis.
 They Support Italy
 The Hcimwehrites support Italy and through their influence, Austria has been reluctant to join the other nations at Geneva.
 Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, the chan cellor, who takes middle course and acts as mediator between the warning internal political factions. was expected to form a new cab- met.
 It was not immediately clear what the movement of the Heimwehr to- wards Vienna portended
 Police at St. Poelten, near the cap- ital, confirmed that the Heimwehr there had started for Vienna. Heim- wehr leaders in the capital said the Vienna forces had not yet mobilized but the entire Heimwehr of lower Austria was moving towards the capital.
 Fritz Lahr, vice-mayor of Vienna a prominent Heimwehr leader, made announcements in the name of Fey who significantly did not attend the cabinent meeting.
 Lahr said Fey, Dr. Karl Buresch minister of finance, and Odo Neus- dter-Stuermer, minister of socia welfare. will not be members of tht new cabinet.
 He added that Edward Baar- Bar. renfeld, commander of the loWel Austrian Heinwelr, would replace Fey as interior minister, and alst would be security commissar, a pos held at present by Prince yon Star. hemberg. Attorney General Rober Winterstein would become minister of finance, Lahr said.
 Austria has four private arm. ies" united only nominally in tho ''fatherland front" headed by Vor Starhemberg.
 The Heimwehr, Won Starhem. berg's own private army, has ( membership of 55,200.
 Next is the Catholic stormtroop. CTS, led by Schuschnigg, with { strength of 41,750 armed members.
 The freedom league" represent. ing the Christian social workers has 37,500 members.
 The German Christian gymnast! has membership of 12,140.
 Relations between all of then have been strained in the last year
 BRITISH SUBJECTS KILLED
 Djibouti, French Somaliland, Oct 17.-CUP)-Reports of raid int, British Somaliland, in which nativ, British subjects were killed ant their herds of cattle and goat gassed, were brought here todd. from Zeila, on the British Somali land coast.
 The reports, which said Italians were the aggressors, were received here with reserve. They wer, brought to E. c. Lowe, British vice consul. He cautioned that the! should bet reated circumspectly, a the affair might easily develop int. the importance of the Ualual incl dent, involving Britain.
 He pointed out the possibility tha a band of maurauders, exploiting the warfare, merely had plunderet the region, and that they could hav' been native Italian leyies who go out of hand, and that Italy coult not be held responsible.
 If the reports are true, 1t woult be the first time any herds have lseen gassed. The reports also sait that those attacked included mem. bers of the camel corps. or Britisi native army.