This Anschluss will be subjected to a plebiscite and you will witness the results. It will. be an overwhelming majority as in the Sarr. I have long suffered under the realization that the people to whom I belong by birth was suppressed by a minority of ten per cent. and I have finally brought this state of affairs to an end.
"In fact I have done more. I have prevented the majority from revenge ing itself upon the oppressors and I hope that the world will interpret what I have done as a work of peace. Had I not intervened and had the Schuschnigg Government attempted to carry out the plebiscite farce, a sanguinary revolution would have resulted and Austria would have become a second Spain in the heart of Europe.
Austrian radio stations will send a joint programme with German stations; Socialist Labour front will be dis-cived and there will be only the German Labour front; Austrian sports association is to come under Nazi direction; Christian Socialist Organizations to be dissolved; Jewish sports associations may not join the common. front; Austrian policemen's rubber baton will be abolished as unworthy the dignity of a German people; Only German citizens may wear swastika badges; Only Aryan doctors may serve in first aid organizations and relief work; German Hitler Youth organization will take over all youth organizations in Austria; All Austrian student organizations will become a part of German students' organizations; and
take AN ranks of the Austrian Army must the oath of allegiance to Herr Hitler. ma Prepares Welcome The city is in a fever of prepara-Yon to give Herr Hitler the most tempestuous welcome the capital has ever known.
The Reichsfuehrer left Linz at 945 o'clock this morning (Shanghai time 545 pr) on his 120-mile journey by road to the capítal He was accompanied by thirteen police cars and 22 others cars.
Following a broadcast order, work will cease in all offices and factories in Vienna at 11 o'clock in order to enable the people to join in she reception.
The Bourse, says a radio announcement, has been closed until further notice, but exchange quotations for foreign currencies will continue to be published.
The announcement referred to {he removal of articles from shops in certain districts in Vienna By groups describing themselves as Storm Troopers. All confiscations, requisitionings and other regularities, the announcement said, are forbidden.
German troops made a state entry into Graz this morning and received demonstrations of welcome. Soldiers were warmly embraced.. while the route through which the troops passed were strewn with flowers.
There was less excitement in Vienna yesterday, although numerous processions of Hitler Youth marched through the streets.
The Austrian Government will now have to make a formal communication to the League of Nations, and it will not be surprising if, at the same time, it announces the with-
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