j AUSTRIA j Paris Press Hints of New German-Italian Move Vienna, Jan. 27.
Herr Tavs, an engineer who is the right-hand man of Captain Leopold, head of the Austrian Nazis, is likely charged with high treason following a police raid on the Nazi headquarters here yesterday when documents of the highest importance were seized. Captain Leopold was questioned but has not yet been arrested. The police raid has caused a great sensation here—Havas, French Press Alarmed Paris, Jan. 27.
It is rumoured in Geneva that a Nazi coup d'etat is to take place in Austria before the visit of Herr Hitler to Rome next May, writes Mme Genevieve Tabouis in "L'Œuvre."
Similar reports are printed in the munist paper L'Humanite." j M. Paul Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister, is said to have formed M. Yvon Delbos, French Foreign Minister, now in Geneva, of very alarmist reports about a speech which Herr Hitler will deliver on European affairs next Sunday, as well as the action which will follow immediately after this speech. The recall of Herr Franz von Papen, German Ambassador in Vienna, is expected to be the prelude to important German moves in Austria.
"All chancelleries have been informed that Italy, in full agreement with Germany, will shortly send 50,000 men to Spain. The fate of peace may hang in the balance within the next few days, the paper reports.—Havas.
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