Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-09-22 | Page 23 | Tide of Revolt Rises in Austria

TIDE OF oc REVOLT RISES RISE IN AUSTRIA JIt Communists Whites Are Well Wel Armed and Ready to Fight Dy MILTON BRONNER NE NEA NEA Service Wrt Writer r LONDON Sept 21 n If 21 If I Austria Austra Austraw w were re not ot a a sort of madhouse where h ro roal all signs tall fail statesmen of ot the big al fis powers allied mo Mn In the late war late w v r and nd o oth of oC th Un Little I Entente W would UI uld b be sitting g 1 t I x t a Chanc Chancellor lor- lor ru i I would steer n a I middle c course ru lip lp nights just when an explosion no Would you take mI might pt p aU all Europe by tt the ears ear once more v k 1 4 Austria Is an a unhappy UnhappY little land hind where l r tho thoc ly opposed s d to the bl big blI city llY ity of or of l Vienna VI xina lina where the r re religious us peas peasants n s Kate hate the Irreligious u city folk tolk where the tho reactionary l are are at t da daggers daggers' geis' geis p points the socialist republican de' de defense defenso forces There are barrels barrels' of or powder all allover allover 1 over the lot ard al all that thatIs i Is 19 needed Deeded is a spark to set act off oCt Ul the wh whole thing In a civil war wa within th tIm the land and ro possible eager cager Ind intervention by Several cral c very vey In Interested Interested Inter Inter- er ested neighbor powers Jt t all started when the World war wa was over er and the erts were mad made The Thee once powerful though conglomerate Au Austro o H Hungarian nga Jan empire was' was cary caved carved d all aU to piece pieces Huge Hugo chunks s were ere given to Ru Ru- r mania Czechoslovakia which now now Jiow form torm the Little Entente to hold on t to what vl at the they ga gained le Hungary Hungry was inada A ma rJ but Austria Austria u was Was aa m made e even smaller I It ws was whittled do to toa toa a. a nation of t people abut about of ot hdm whom dwell d iri In Vienna Ienna That That was s 's bad bail e enough oUgh bUt bul tho the neighboring states states- at onee once oe put ut u ut up lip t walls tariff if walls wals and th that t made Vienna situation worse than than ever Vienna ha has had a a desperate sperate d time thre trying tIng to live hive Jve Hence ui n for for th the un union Ion t to Germany But cven even cren that that thatIs Is Is' not all ail Vienna Is red EVer since the war warP war It t has had lada a socialist government nc t. t kept In tn power powe be rods ve refused to allow alow the thc r rents to g go up JP andi nd g a apart apartment arl- arl ment the working Casses classes The rhe bankers business men th the tho Industrialists of all al hate the thc regime and would like li to o overthrow overthrow over over- cr- cr throw It J. J 1 JOu J Ou Id of ot Vienna Ienna with wih the tl exception ex ex- ex- ex of cf a few socialist Industrial towns town Austria Austria Js is ill 1 white while The TilO peasants hate Vienna aSIf asa parasite They hate hato it i also because also because look upon tho reds as enemies of their church The socialists are arc d de ted to the tho republic and andr have have- formed ot d a a republican defense force which which- Js Is Js' Js rea ready y to fight f for r rth th the the- republic if f nc need d be The Tho reactionaries reactionaries' have forr formed d the which hates the he republic This b body y Is Is 51 said d to tobe tobe be Iberal liberally pr provided vided with smuggled rifles and machine guns I There have heen cen frequent armed clashes between the Heh r and the tho republican n defense force Two vo years ago when te hr kl killed d' d soMe sonie socialists and ard nd t the fru n d dor of of or tIlls this were acquited acquitted by ti the c courts t terrible riots took look place In Vienna which resulted in the law courts be ing ing- burned by by- bya a a. a a socialist t hoU of or workmen PotS For the tIle pat m there there h have ve been other clash clashes s In ii which men nien menon on both sides ides la havE be been killed Idled or or Injure Recently Y t there e e have havo been ten b-ten rumors f fk k kS k'S S 'S v c x r i jf r rS S t Mayor Mayor Se b sYI Vienna Vienna can cat d defend fend itel itself th hat all after te the 1 e crops crops' Cp are e harvested the to tom m mat march i h on 01 Vienna Vienna a la Is 13 f s Butt Buttie But the are re not not united d In th their their motives lr m motIves so o nothing may come come- omo ome of f It f. f Ignaz Ignas the priest statesman wl Who was was chancellor r oC or the republic rep f for r r some years and who wh-o rescued rescued Austria Austria froma rma tight financial hole hoJe i Is an ini au and out and ut ut of the B But t h he Is 18 also alec friendly to t the Hapsburg r family ml and ane not po ot ayer averse o to their restoration to th the I There ThOre are arc others who would woul like I t to ice see t some sort of union with Hunt Hun Hun- 1 I j g I 4 l v I j I I 9 k wH a I a II f I might restore store tl tile the gary aI sUn Still others dream of at a fascist t regime Tl er again the na- na nathe na- na the live Austrian A Helm ehr le leaders ar are us usually Catholics th there ic Is' Is Is Isa 0 a very cry r sho strops Infusion Infusion of ot f G d rm n Potes Protes- Protes tant leaders who having tal failed d' d In putsches in tn th their lr native land have hye run away any from possible arrest arres in inGeri Geri Germany ny and h and drill the H hr a aThe The also Is is' divided on the Jewish question queston In the country country coun coun- try the thc bitterly ot the attack Jews of ot Vienna In Vienna ienna where some ot of pf the gerat Jewish Industrial Industrialists I- I Jt arid and and bankers are friendly to the Uie the tho soft pedal Is put on anti nt- nt I rl Seltz Selz t the e brilliant socialist ter VIenna sa s 's the big city Is prepared cd to take tak care of It Itself Itself It- It f- f self sl against the threatened attacks J In a the government he headed ded byCh by Chancellor trying to steer teer a middle lc between course ourse tile two f factions The Thia chancellor expresses his couf I- I tat le he will I bo ho ab able c to o handle the situation with police and his his' soldiers B But t th tl rc c is a abig big J if in Iii 11 this The Tle army Is believed to to toh h have ve lost lost its Is' Is socialist le leanings arid the g vern- vern v rn- rn mont may wake fine morn morn morn- Ing and find th that t Its Is soldiers rs' rs li had d Joined tIre the tie H ll hr r to seat a a n new new- a Vienna a power per hi sympathy sym sym- pathy wIh with th the tho Mussolini reg regime m of at Ialy Italy and land the Bethlen Bethlen regime of ot Hungary Hugar A And d then l en the Entente Entente En En- En t. t tente tent would and take tak notice