The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-28
|NAzIS WATCHED
 FOR UPR|SINGS
Trouble Centers in Austria Carefully Guarded for
 Outbreaks
BY ROBERT H. BEST


 Limited Press Staff Correspondent)
 Vienna, Feb. 28-(UP)-Troops and police in all potential trouble centers were reported today to be under a state of semi alarm" as Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg de- termined to suppress illegal Nazi activities.
 It was even rumored, without con- firmation, that attachments of sol- diers and policemen were hidden in towers and other vantage points in Vienna, awaiting Nazi disorders.
 Graz, capital of Nazi Styria pro- vince, was regarded as the most dangerous spot. Motorized troops and police, sent there yesterday to prevent a reported Nazi plan to march on the city, remained on guard.
 By government order, Graz uni- versity and Gymnasia-Schools = throughout Styria were closed to make it more difficult for Nazi youths to assemble.
 The dispatch of troops and picked police to Graz was regarded as the first dramatic notice to NaziS that a clean up was under way.
 Dr. Arthur Won Seyss-Inquart, Nazi party minister of interior and public security, who is at the same time a cevout Roman Catholic and close friend of Schuschnigg, was expected to go to Graz today or to- morrow to confer with police, chief tains of the governmental Father land front and prominent Nazis at a round table conference.
 It was understood that Seyss-In- quart would announce that Schusch- nigg had decided uncompromisingly to suppress all illegal Nazi activity throughout the country.
 .SeySs-Inquart is the nominal lead- CT of the clean up. Actually, Schuschnigg is in personal com mand.
 There were indications that prompt government action at Graz yesterday halted, without the fir ing of shot and without even an arrest, threatened uprising. Graz is 80 per cent Nazi, it is estimated, and the people of the whole pro- vince are not much less inclined proportionately toward Nazism. The government received information which led it to believe that from 40,- 900 to 50,00O Styrian Nazi peasants were going to march on Graz yes- terday by every road. It was even alleged that the NaziS intended to occupy the post offices and tele- graph and telephone offices and provincial government buildings.
 At midday motorized units from the Vienna Army Garrison raced roaring into the streets of the city. Trucks, tanks and armored cars and an estimated three battalionS of troops were in the column. Air planes began circling over the city and environs, watching for any col- umns of Nazis.
 Graz looked like city in war time. Squads of troops with ma chine guns were posted at all ap- breaches to the city. Every public building, every bridge, every com- manding street intersection had its heavily armed guard detail. There were even some light field pieces.
 Just after the arrival of the mo- torized troops, the roads outside the city began to fill with peasants. The troops hastily took position and or dered them to turn back. They did so peaceably.
 Toward evening 1t was announced laconically that the troops had de- tended the city successfully from danger of march by it, and as all was peaceful most of the troops were withdrawn to inconspicuous positions
 But meantime the government had sent big force of picked police from Vienna, including many oper- atives of the secret political branch.
 It was evident that the danger was not past. The United Press Correspondent reported that many Nazis in Graz continued to wear Nal emblems, and that Nazis in the provinces wore their full uniforms in defiance of a government ban. Nazi flags flew from some buildings. Nazis collected money in coffee houses, the collectors announcing that storm one"-the Nazi storm troop organiza tion-needed money for the struggle. Nazis circulated demands" of various sorts.