Europe Horrified: Civil War Breaks Out in Attempt to Overthrow Government Vienna, July 27. 'WT/HILE church bells were tolling and prayers being offered throughout Austria in memory of the slain Chancellor, Dr. Engelbert Dolifuss, who was shot and killed in the Chancellery on Wednesday by Austrian Nazis, civil war broke out yesterday in Austria as the rebels clashed with Government forces for the control of half a dozen cities in the province of Upper Styria.
The attempted putsch in the provinces is being effectively crushed. The insurrectionary leaders in Styri ind Klagenfurt, in Carinthia, have been arrested, while troops are investing the Carinthian towns of Stveit, Feldkirchen and St. Andre, each held by rebels about 600 strong.
The main question is to round up the rebels with the least possible loss of life and damage to property.
Vienna itself is rapidly returning to normal.
A queue stretching for three-quarters of a mile had been formed by ten o'clock this morning at the Rathausplatz to file past the body of the late Chancellor, Dr.
Dollfuss.
Meanwhile, according to reports from the Carinthian border, two battalions of Italian troops have moved to Raibl and Tarvisio, but no border incidents have been notified—Reuter.
Murder Deseribea Vienna, July 26, Dr. Dollfuss was shot and fatally wounded yesterday after he and other members of the Cabinet had been captured by Austrian Nazis and held prisoner in the Federal Chancellery.
Dr, Kurt Schuschnigg, the 39-year-old "Minister of Educatlon—a strong Catholic and an ardent monarchist—assumed the Chancellorship last ight, Following the death of Dr. Doll-fuss, martial law. Was" proclaimed throughout Austri The first move made by the rebels was at 1130 yesterday morning while a meeting of the Cabinet was In progress, A party of 160 Austrian Nazis, all wearing police uniforms, met in an athletic club, laid their final plans and then rushed to the chamber where the Cabinet was in session.
Minister of security and former Vice-Chancellor of Austria, was immediately arrested, together with his right-hand man, Herr Karl Karwinsky, Under-Secretary of Defence.
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