Show t DUCE DUGE PREPARED FOR ACTION IN AUSTRIA AUTRA ITALY 1 ALY SENDS MORE TROOPS TO FRONTIER f Government Soldiers Smash I ro r Nazi Insurrectionists in Fierce Battles HUNDREDS FLEE COUNTRY E Are Interned Intern y by Authorities I By T A Associated Fr Frees Pren s i These were the developments Inthe Inthe in inthe the Austrian situation today Vienna Vienna The The assassinated chancellor chancel lor br Eng Engelbert lbert Dollfuss was laid to rest Elsewhere in Austria government government govern govern- govern govern- ment f forces smashed nazi Hundreds Hundreds of Austrian nazis driven out of Austria b by y government troops were interned by authorities R Rome Rome Rome-Premer Premier Muss Mussolini ordered supporting troops to the Austrian bolder border bore bol bor- bor der to back up the Italian soldiers sol sal diers dies already on dut duty there An facial spokesman said Italy was prepared prepared pre- pre pared red to act in Austria on short notice M Munich Chancellor nich-Chancellor Chancellor Hitler ordered nazi zi broadcast ston tj z abandoned a as second cond n on the thC Austrian situation ti n. n Bl ck S. 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S troopers were on guard to see seeto seeto seeto to It that no nazis marched across the Austrian border Berlin Franz Berlin von newly L l appointed minister to Austria pre pre- f r I pared to go to Vienna to take over his duties I Italy Sends Second Detachment North Copyright 1934 b by Associated Press ROME ReME July 28 28 A 25 A second wave of t. t c 4 Continued on Pace Page Three I ITALY TAl Y IS READY k TO ACT QUICKLY f. f Sends More Troops to Border as Austrian Forces Smash Nazis Continued from Pa Page Pace e One Italian troops started northward ard today to day diy to support men now flOW con i on the Austrian border Official military circles demonstrated ed great uneasiness today as reports from rom Austria showed the nazi revolution revolution tion still flamed Italian cities from Florence on the I south louth and particularly Rome present T an unusual appearance Normally every ev cv- ery fourth man appears to be bein m in uni uniform uni about the only uniforms uni un- form but now forms visible on streets are those of ot fascist juvenile organizations Move love North Officers and soldiers have moved north north most of ot them into training camps and other posts near the frontier The German embassy is constantly guarded by several doz dozen n un uniformed ormed police and detectives A government spokesman said the not morning news from Austria was alarming but that the Italian government govern ment nent was watching the situation with I the greatest attention and was prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared to act any moment Premier Mussolini is represented as s feeling that any further diplomatic overtures can serve no useful pur pur- pose He appeared determined today to lend a a prompt hand if it he feels the situation warrants Watch Vienna Keenly Spokesmen for the government I however insist that intervention is not necessarily imminent They are watching Vienna with a particularly keen eye today fearful that the funeral funeral funeral fu fu- fu- fu of the assassinated Chancellor r F r Dollfuss may prove the match to set setoff f f off oU new disorders Government spokesmen express the I hope that the Austrians will be able f I to settle their heir own affairs but they they i make it plain that whether the nazi nazif f menace comes from within or without without without with with- out Austria Italy does not intend to permit nazis to gain the upper hand Reports that Italian troops had ali already al ale i ready crossed the frontier into Carin- Carin thia Austria where fighting is under under under un- un der way were emphatically denied j Such unconfirmed reports were received rek re- re k yesterday at Belgrade f Austrian f Crushes Nazi Rebels Copyright 1934 by Associated Press VIENNA July 28 Government 28 rifles machine guns and artillery i drove the rebellious enemies of Ent EnI Engelbert En En- I gelbert Dollfuss out of 01 Austria today t L L as in Vienna the slain chancellor was wasL L eulogized in an impressive funeral rr service L 1 The government forces in L v were crushing the nazi uprising fore fore- f. f ing the brown brown rebels from their positions in mountain passes and villages Many fled over the Jugo border Fighting Fig Continued In where the n nazis zis have been more successful sue sue- and a nazi leader decla declared ed that if the rebel forces in that provo provi i t ince lace can only hold out until tonight I t we shall be ready to start a new putsch in and nd this time believe believe be be- lieve me it will be more successful Find Nazi Station Police raiding the home of Herr Maier director of the thc state school i r of applied arts In declared they had found an Incriminating letter letter let let- ter from the nazi Prince Bernard von vong g Meiningen Meiningen Sachse-Meiningen who was o 0 once oncey n c e y jailed by the late Chancellor Dollfuss Dollfuss Doll Doll- fuss but later escaped rJ The police raided the physics laboratory labo laber r c of the school and said that there here they had discovered a secret hr wireless station from which nazi revolutionary activities had been dire directed di di- f re ted At least two persons were killed tonight in an exchange of machine l gun fire between the roofs of houses I f and quarters in the castle crowning a hill which dominates Graz capital of Panic immediately broke out through the cit city The population for forthe forthe forthe the moment did not know whether those who opened fire lre on the helm helm- wehr headquarters were communists or nazis At Eibiswald near the border the government forces cut- cut numbered umbe ed the nazis and were able to I drive the enemy from the village r The nazis however took new in the mountain pass which forms the connecting link between and Nazis Nails Retreat Slowly 1 The government soldiers went into the pass after them the nazis retreatIng retreat retreat- L Ing ine slowly Some of them apparently scattered but the majority numbering number number- numberIng numbering ing approximately crossed over the frontier and surrendered dered to the border guard Meanwhile the and the Catholic storm troops in Graz the capital of ot were celebrating their victory k They made wholesale arrests of t nazis and even of nazi sympathizers Ii Bitter Fighting Occurs i Bitter fighting took place in the 4 vicinity of the festival city of Salz Salz- y burg during the night resulting in a af 4 f 1 number of ot dead and wounded on V both sides f At Liefering not far from the German Ger Ger- man border a commander t was killed and six of his men wound f ed cd during a B skirmish with nazis The fighting in and around Lam Lam- 5 was especially heavy Clashes also occurred at Mandling l 1 where a detachment was g attacked by nazis The nazis were beaten off i i Desperate fighting Is under way in southern and west western rn Austria Nazis their casualties in the thc thousands con con- grimly to carry carryon on the four day I old warfare 1 Battles are on at numerous points near Salzburg next to the German Germant w t border An official toda today said severe fighting Is in progress in c. c southern Austria near the i Italian and borders Another sector of conflict is east east- s cm rn Tyrol Feldkirchen md and Klasen lurt urt picturesque capital re rc centers ot of civil war var The govern gover j ment meat 1 is ia rushing troops In increasing increasing j II numbers to that section in an effort to stamp out the thc revolt is is' a tangle of barbed wire It is 13 jammed with soldiers bearIng bear Ing gleaming bayonets The wounded are pouring in from neighboring bat bat- l July 28 I JP IP Reports from the border today indicated in in- that the Austrian nazis in and southern were offering a desperate resistance to Austrian government forces who were attacking with artillery The nazis have mined all the roads to prevent the passage o of the big guns |