The Archive · 1938

Agitation Spreading

Vienna, Oct. 18.

The Nazi anti-Catholic campaign reached new heights today when six Viennese priests and many other elsewhere in Austria were arrested.

The Government today indefinitely banned all Catholic services involving street processions, on the grounds that it would excite rioting and blood shed on the part of the anti-Catholic elements.

"Woelkischer Beobachter," organ of the Nazi party, said that 2,000 Nazis demonstrated before the palace of the Archbishop of Salzburg, Dr. Sigmund Waltz, shouting demands that he resign. The crowd was dispersed without bloodshed.

The priests were arrested on charges of immoral behaviour, resisting the police during anti-Catholic riots, distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets and encouraging anti-Nazi demonstrations United, Press with

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