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Show NAZIS STRIKE AT AUSTRIAN ': DICTATORSHIP j Dollfuss And Aides Arrested In Bicj Putsch; 10 Killed VIENNA, July 25 (U.R) Austrian Nazis struck swiftly swift-ly at the Dollfuss dictatorship dictator-ship in a dramatic putsch today to-day in which they seized the "f chancellory and made prisoners prison-ers of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss and members of his cabinet. Martial law was declared and hi streets were tilled with troops, nolice and Heimwehr guards with ,.its and machine guns. The Nazis barricaded in the chancellory threatened violence to , the prisoners if they were attacked, attack-ed, it was reported without con-1 con-1 firmation that Dollfuss and Major Ma-jor Emily Fey, director of public 'onier, had been wounded. Seize Arsenal About noon, 300 disguised Nazis seized the Heimwehr barracks in the seventh district and equipped j ihemselves with machine guns, f rii'ies and ammunition. Police rushed the barracks but were too late to arrest all the s raiders. The extent of casualties was not known, but it was estimated at ' least ten were killed in street , fighting and the seizure of the government radio station by Nazis, Na-zis, who later were driven out. After capturing the seventh district barracks, the Nazis com-, com-, raandeered motor trucks and went : to the government offices in the , Bailhausplatz. ! They seized two guards, barricaded barri-caded the steel doors of the build- : ing and arrested Dollfuss, Fey and other ministers. An official police announcement said the en-lire en-lire cabinet was seized except three members who were absent, ; including Prince Ernst von Star-liemberg. Star-liemberg. The latter is in Italy. It was said Dollfuss and Fey : were wounded when they did not ' lurrender quickly enough after ihe Nazis entered the cabinet room. I Soldiers began joining the po-1 po-1 , lice and Heimwehr forces, apparently appar-ently planning to attack if- and (When the imprisoned cabinet mem-ters mem-ters indicate they prefer storm-I storm-I ing to surrender. . |