The Archive · 1938

Austrian Nazis Told Not to Vote

Vienna, Mar. 10.

Austrian Nazi leaders to-day instructed all Austrian Nazis not to vote in Sunday's plebiscite on the question of "a free German Austria."—Reuter. officers drew their sabres and policemen used rubber truncheons.

Clashes also occurred between Nazis and patriotic youth organizations at Innsbruck, and between Nazis and members of the Fatherland Front Dr. von Schuschnigg's Party at Linz, where the Nazis had arranged meetings of protest against the fixing of the age limit for voting at, the plebiscite at 24 years, The, Nazis complain that this ruling will lose them 20,000 votes in Upper Austria alone.

These disorders indicate the bitterness with which the country will be torn on the biggest public issue in_ its history.

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