Show AUSTRIA PUTS PUTS' DOWN REVOLT OF SOCIALISTS Victory Gives Give Dollfus Dollfus' Fas Fascist Regime Complete Control Control Con Con- of Nation t NAZI HOPES ARE CRUSHED Civil Civil War Ends Only After Heavy Bombardment Br By United Press VIENNA Feb 15 15 Socialism Socialism In Austria was crushed today and the unhappy postwar republic which h represents rep rep- resents the remains of what once was an empire stood at the threshold of fascist rule Tens of ot thousands of socialists defeated de de- de- de in the four day civil war which cost perhaps 1500 lives Including women wo we- wa men and children surrendered to the forces of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss Doll Doll- fuss throughout the city Thousands of ot others fled leaving the their r w weapons behind The d defeat feat was vas generally acknowledged Members of ot the government announced announced an an- the fighting was definitely over I I i I I The triumphant fascists said lid it was all allover over except for the tho hangings How long the new era will last seemed problematic Th The lying quiet here and in G Germany r an licking th their ir chops and andI waiting for the opportune moment to move in Inand and replace the the- Dollfuss- Dollfuss fascist regime regime re- re re re-i gime on Italian lines with Hitlerism The result possibly would be a real union of f German Germany and nd Austria in iri a a unless the the European powers interfere ere Th The political fu u. u ture of ot E Europe Europa opa seemed to hinge on on the result One of ot the nazi hopes was that the soci socialists lisa their heads blood bloody b but t their spirits still defiant would k themselves to the to-the the nazi nari cause s dor for pro protection and assurance of ot future security se se- se e- e I That was all problematic and in n the future however For the pres present n nt after his efficient blasting of one n of ot the biggest bulwarks of ot democracy c in his path the Dollfuss steamroller Continued on Page Pace Ten Y AUSTRIA ENDS f RED UPRISING ff f Socialists Beaten After Bombardment Bom Born I L t- t by Loyal Troops E c. Continued from P Pare pue e One WU was ws forging ahead toward complete fascist rule at high speed peed He had broken the back of a arnove- arnove move movement ment meat almost unparalleled in the country's coun coun- try's history leaving Marxian socialism social ism hm w writhing In blood and mortally Just how v seriously Europe had regarded regarded re re- the Austrian situation was wasen seen seen en In the fact fad that Premier Mussolini Musso lini of Italy had massed two army corps at the Austrian border Technically they were replace replace- Jn ments Actually they were ready to move across the border if it through the turmoil of revolution the independence inde independence of Austria emasculated but still stin the heart of Europe was threatened Six nations nations Germany Germany Switzerland Switzer Switzer- land Jand Italy Hungary Hungar and Slovakia border Czecho border on the little lit lit- littie tie tle postwar republic Each watched events closely and Anxiously but none so anxiously as fascist cist Italy Austria Used as aa Buffer Butter ButterA A friendly independent Austria is Li I t at aton on ce once a b buffer state slate end and diplomatic ace tee for Italy pitted against nazi G Ger r- r many in iii the effort efort to dominate cast east err ern rn Europe The Italian troop movement was token as soon aon aj aa the revolution re started d. d Admittedly it was a pr precaution precaution caution cau- cau tion against interference from any source with Austria's independence The gravity of the view vIe the powers took was shown et Gt London where it wa was learned Great Britain and Ita Italy I acting ading on Italian initiative had advised advised advised ad ad- Austria not at this lime Ume to tomake tomake tomake make its proposed appeal to the league of nations against alleged German German Ger man nazi interference League LUlue Too Too Weak The cynical truth of this move teemed seemed to be that the situation was one of too great moment to be bc in trusted to the battered league I Should Germany make a contemptuous contemptuous tuo answer to any effort the league might make to aid sid Austria it would precipitate a crisis The Vienna municipal apartment hous houses citadels of socialist deCe defense e which had been revealed as the fortresses fort fort- reses of revolutionaries as well as homes for workers were largely largel a amass amass amass mass of ol shell battered ruins The end of the revolt was glied when sightseers ers including ing Americans swarmed forth afoot andIn and andIn In taxicabs to see the ruins of battle All AU Homes Searched Large mopping up patrols with t j rifles rilles pointing over the sides of their automobiles and trucks drove through the streets in areas where the socialists had hung put white flags lags but which the authorities thorit es had hadnot hadnot hadnot not yet searched t for r arms Wherever the trucks halted dozens dozens doz doz- dozens ens othan s were rais raised d in surrender as as troops and police dismounted dismounted dis dis- mounted and approached with their hands on the triggers of their rifles Infantry cavalry artillery and armored cars had been used in In Inthe the pitiless drive that broke the revolution tIon lion At noon there expired a hour five-hour period during which socialists were permitted l to lay down their arms without ut penalty Chief Chiet revolutionary leaders were excepted The alternative to surrender was the threat the government would use all means however ruthless to smash the th thousands of stubborn revolutionists revolution revolution- fats who since Monday have suffered individual defeats but have l retreated and fought again undaunted Refuse to o Surrender Socialists Socialist accepted the alternative and nd replied with a citywide hail of oC jacketed steel bullets that tha lasted nearly four hours Threats Threat of mass ma hangings the exer exe- exe r cution of three of their leaders the fact tact that their wives and children were in danger with them of death from irom three inch piercing armor a rm shells had bad failed to move them Robert Kalab 21 n a bookbinder was the first man sent to the gallows to today day During the morning amnesty period he lie was sentenced to death for commandIng commanding com corn manding a socialist ambush in the suburb of MeIdling-an MeIdling an ambush in which he was captured Meet Death Boldly Last night two minor socialist lead lead- ers era gave up their lives on the sea scat fold Both went to death boldly At the same time Fire Captain Ernst el was confronting th the stern-faced stern row of judges charged with having gone gon with his entire fire ire company to th the socialists Three hours later at midnight h he was dangling from the hangman s cord 2000 Face Fate Execution Two thousand others were subject to drumhead and immediate immediate immediate imme imme- diate execution All had been arrested arrest arrest- ed since the revolution started Mon Man day Aghast ghast at the estimated slaughter of 1500 during the last three days hoping to break the revolution tion by moral suasion instead of hazarding the resort to a finish fight Chancellor Doll Dollfuss fuss had arranged the hour five truce period It was to th no effect The government govern overn- overn ment anno announced after the expiration of oC the amnesty period that many socialists socialists socialists so so- had surrendered Many had for Cor there were white flags on many workmen's homes But there were many more in the fight chancing quick clean death in action or cole cold I Ideath death in the noose Extermination Starts The period of ot grace over government govern ment forces massed to togo go in into o action across the gre great that is at the end of a a series of st straight streets from the inner city elty to execute the threat of extermination against the socialists across the river Then the socialists' socialists challenge to a finish fight came in in volleys from b behind behind be be- hind In the northern western and southern sections previously quiet and hence but lightly manned by government government gov gay forces Apartment houses house built bum by the city were used by the socialists as fort fort- r s Defeated at one fort the socialists converged on another The women and children went into the cellar the artillery moved up The government officer in command demanded a sur sur- render A burst of fi fire e from windows answered him 25 Women Slain The artillery bombardment began each time slowly and methodically The house burst into flames The d defenders de defenders de- de fenders renders fled or were captured Lieutenant Colonel Engelbert chief of police explained Why more women and children children and and socialists socialists had had not been en killed so soWe far We may have slaughtered women we help it We always sent an ultimatum ultimatum ulti ulU malum to a b building we attacked Then the noncombatants either l left ft or took took- took refuge In the cellar RealizIng Realia- Realia Ing this we avoided 1 firing into the lower stories and co concentrated c our fire above aboe Blank Shells Sheila Used Also in the fighting we interspersed inter sed d our real shells with blank ones depending on the shattering ear noise to tog break the morale of the defenders de de- de- de fenders The shattering nerve-shattering effect effet of the firm shown last night when a woman asphyxiated herself and her year old son at the Karl Marxo apartment which had been under heavy shell fire |