The Archive · 1934

Safe Conduct Cancelled

Vienna, July 26

The guarantee of safe conduct given the rebels by Major Emil Fey, Minister of Security, who agreed to held prisoner in the Chancellery, has been cancelled by Dr. Kurt Schushning, the 39-year-old Minister of [Education and acting Chancellor. who indicated in his" first oficial statement that the policies of Dr. Dolifuss would continue to be carried, out. was officially announced that a Jmajor and five soldiers were killed anda colonel seriously wounded in clash before Pyhrn pass, connecting Upper Austria and Styria, which was captured by the government troops from the rebels.

The Federal troops are reported to have suffered considerable losses in the Pyhra pass fighting, while further heavy fighting is taking place at Salzkammergut. Nine hundred Nazi rebels have so far been taken Prisoners in Styria The son-in-law of the Austrian Ambassador at Rome, Herr Rintelen, a lawyer, was arrested to-day by the authorities at Graz, One hundred and four alleged Nazi were arrested during the day in Vienna including Herr Raenner, the first Austrian Chancellor following the Great War—Reuter.

Killer an ex-Corporat Vienna, July 27.

The actual murderer of Dr. Doilfuse, the police said to-day, was ex-'Corporal Franz Holzweber, who was discharged from the Austrian army in 1992 because of his pro-Nazi agitation, This man will be charged before the special military court which being convened to try the 144 Nazis accused of taking part in Tuesday's raid upon the Chancellery, with hay-ting fired the shots which struck the [Chancellor in the neck and back and feaused his death—United Press Berlin, July 26.

'The frontier between Austria and Germany, which was closed yesterday, was' re-opened to-day to traffic.

According to Reuter from Munich, following reports that members of Dr. Franz von Papen

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