Evening star., 1938-03-15


BULLETIN.
MUNICH, Germany, March IS
P).-Adolf Hitler arrived here by
special airplane tonight. returning
from his triumphal four-day visit
to Austria, which he absorbed into
the German nation.
By the Associated Press.
VIENNA, March 15.-With the I'm.
perial Palace of the Hapsburgs al
a background, Adolf Hitler today pro.
claimed the end of Austrian indie
pendence and the entrance of my
native land into the German Reich
His triumph in Vienna completed he
departed later from the Aspern Air
port by plane, presumably for Munich
Madly cheered by hundreds of thou
sands of Austrians, the Fuehrer rode
into Heroes square outside the palace
through the great stone arch of the
Emperor which bears the inscription,
Justice Is the Foundation of Gov
ernment"
While Chancellor Hitler presided
over the greatest triumph of his
meteoric career. his lieutenants took
over all functions of the Austrian
government.
The Austrian treasury was absorbed
by the German treasury. Hitler's
foreign minister took over all Aus
tria's foreign relations with the out
side world
Austria became merely gau-dis-
trict-of the German realm. Vienna
a provincial German city, Chancellor
Seysz-Inquart merely Governor of
Austria"-so addressed significantly by
the Fuahrer himself
Meanwhile. Gottfirend Kunwald,
Austrian financier. unofficial finance
minister" and counsellor to the late
Ignaz Seipel, one of several postwar
chancellors. was found dead in his
Innsbruck home. Death was attributed
to an overdose Of sleeping medicine
The new government announced
that Jews no longer can vote.
Guardian of the Crown.
Gov. SeysZ- Inquart, introducing
Chancellor Hitler to the throng in
Heroes Square, solemnly proclaimed to
the world Chancellor Hitler had come
in this significant hour as "Fuehrer
and Reichschancellor in the hofburg
(palace) of the old imperial capital,
the guardian of the crown"
Some of his hearers took this as a
hint that Hitler one day might assume
that crown.
Chancellor Hitler, who reached
Vienna yesterday for the climax of his
triumphal journey from Berlin, an
nounced for Austria-"the most thor
oughly German outpost of the German
people"-its new mission" to be
henceforth "the newest bulwark of the
German nation and therefore of the
German Reich"
Through centuries in troubled times
of the past" he declared, storms of
the East have broken on the border of
the old Eastern outpost (Ostmark, the
old name for Austria).
In centuries to come, for all time.
there shall be an iron guarantee for
the security and freedom of the Ger
man Reich and Herewith a guaran-
tee for the happiness and peace of
our great people"
Many saw in this a hint of revival
of the pre-war German "drang mach
osten"-march to the East.
Spoke From Memorable Spot.
Chancellor Hitler spoke from the
spot from which Engelbert Dollfuss
and Kurt Schuschnigg often spoke in
exhortation to the Austrians to cling
to their independence.
He spoke within sight of the chan
celery at Ballhausplatz where Chan
cellor Dollfuss. trying to save his Aus
trian countrymen from Hitler, was
assassinated in 1884
But when these Austrian country
men today heard Chancellor Hitler
they cheered him as redeemer.
Chancellor Hitler referred to neither
Chancellor Dollfuss nor the recently
ousted Chancellor Schuschnigg by
name, but spoke Of the previous re-
gime as one whose object was Ito pre-
vent the formation of great Ger
man people and thus was barricade
to the path of the German people into
the future"
The derisive roar which greeted this
assertion could. be heard half a mile
away in Belvedere Palace, where Ex-
Chancellor Schuschnigg was held cap
tive by the new masters of his country
As Chancellor Hitler told his 7,000,-
900 new Austrian subjects to meet
their new responsibilities, his officials
expunged the Austrian national gov
ernment.
Impressive Military Show.
Parading Austrian and German
troops, armored cars and tanks, ma.
chine gun and artillery units provided
Viennese an impressive afternoon
show. Several hundred planes roarec
overhead as the procession wound
through Ringstrasse, a circular boule-
ward in the heart of the city.
Amid the din of shouting, the roar
of planes and the tramp of goose
stepping troops, Chancellor Hitler
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