Vienna, Mar. 22
The exact number of persons in protective custody here is 1,742, a Trans-Ocean representative was told by a well-informed source. In the whole of Austria the number of persons in custody would not exceed 3,000, it is stated, and a large part of these detentions are to be garded as only provisional Well-known persons now in c tody include the former chief of the Austrian press service, Colonel Adam; the financier, Herr Sigmund Basel, who was responsible for the collapse of the Post Office Savings Bank; the former Finance Minister, Dr. Ludwig Draxler; Major Alfred Eisler, leader of the Republican Guards and of the February, 1934, revolt; the ex-Minister, Herr Hornbostel; two former burgomasters of Vienna, Herren Seitz and Schmitz; Dr. Albert Hautsch, who was entrusted by Dr. von Schuschnigg with organizing his projected plebiscite; the former Secretary-General of the Austrian Federal Railways, Dr. Anton Krogner; the Director-General of the Kredit Anstalt, Herr Ludwig Klausner, who is charged with smuggling foreign exchange out of the country; the Secretary-General of the Chamber of Labour, Dr. Friedrich Kuehr, U.S. Stops Helium Sales Washington, Mar. 21
The United States government may retard the delivery of Helium to Germany, Havas learned from a reliable source to-day. It is believed this is due to fears expressed by Mr. Harold Ickes, Secretary for the Interior: that the gas may not be used entirely for commercial zeppelins but also for military dirigibles.—Havas. i charged with having conducted negotiations with foreign Popular Front politicians for an armed rising in Austria; Herr Joseph Reiter, a Minister in the last Schuschnigg Cabinet and also regional commander of Lower Austria; the chief of the state police, Dr. Ludwig Weiser; the former Austrian Minister in Paris, Dr. Vollgruber; the Legitimist leader. Baron von Wiesner; Princes Ernst and Max Hohenberg; Karl Freiherr von Werkmann, the last secretary of the last Austro-Hungarian Emperor Karl; the ear specialist, Dr. Neumann, who has attended the Duke often Anxiety Roused ove r British Officer
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