The Archive · 1933

Internment Camps for Austria

Vienna, Sept. 24.

"Camps of Surveillance," not con centration camps, will shortly fereated in Austria to house all elements whose acti fies might deemed hostile to the state, accord= ing to the organ of the new Vice (Chancellor, M. Fey. An ordinance creating these camps will shortly be promulgated by Chancellor Dolifuss, ithe paper declares.

"Any person suspected of hostile ity toward the state or of intention to trouble law and order" will be in-

permitted to appeal against their termed, Persons interned will be detention. These camps will in no way compare with the concentration camps created by the Nazis in Germany. Their spain purpose la 10 Paralyse anti-governmental activity.

Those interned will be humanely treated but will have to pay their Jown expenses,—Havas, on September 3. Eastern Europe appears to be tranquil and. itis now up to the West to take definite steps toward the same goal during the forthcoming international cone

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