Vienna, Feb. 8
Moving swiftly to check what they believed to be symptoms of an imminent Socialist uprising, the JAustrisn authorities made several hundred arrests in various parts of the country to-day.
Meanwhile, troops were posted outside all public buildings in Vienna, giving the city the aspect of a war-camp and reminding many of the inhabitants of the abortive Socialist rebellion last July.
Tt is reported that altogether some 1500 Social Democrats have been arrested here and in the provinces, the prisoners being taken into "preventive custody," as the authorities put it.
Another factor, one that has caused even greater alarm, has been the continued smuggling of large quantities of arms and ammunition into the country, all efforts by the authorities {failing to check the flow.
The tension felt throughout the Jcountry was noticeably increased today when Hilde Goesal, a woman who had taken part in Nazi agitation, iwas sentenced to death at Innsbruck.
"The charge against her was that she had attempted to kill Anton Strele, a member of the Executive }Forces, last July, when she is alleged to have been caught red-handed as she was throwing 2 bomb.
To. her goes the unhappy reputation of being the first woman ever to be sentenced to death in Austria.
Another Nazi, a. man who alleged to have been her accomplice, iwas also sentenced to death—Reuter.
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