The Archive · 1934

Votes Sold to Nazis

Vienna, Aug. 2 'A new sensational high treason trial, that of Herr Baschinger, former Minister and head of the Agrarian Federation which was dissolved yesterday, for collusion with the Nazis, will shortly taken place' at Linz. Havas, Vienna, Aug. 28 Baron -Delvert. public security Jehief in the "Austrian Chancellery, was dismissed to-day from service with" reduced pension as result of his activity on behalf of the. now= uppresied political parties—Trans-'Ocean Kuo Min, Prison Rather Than USSR, Six years' hard labour was the Jsentence passed to-day on Otto Mueller, commander of the Marxist [Sehutebund, whose insurrection in the Karl Marx' Court in February last was ruthlessly suppressed by lat [Chancellor Dollfuss, - Mueller laiso charged with offences—agai explosives. law which was" subsequently passed.

had fed to Soviet Russia but returned to. Vienna at the beginning Jor July, "declaring that. the condi tions of life in the Soviet Union were catastrophic that he preferred to face trial and sentence, "however lsevere.—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.

Another Leader Sentenc Vienna, Aug. 20.

The death sentence was passed yesterday on Franz Ebner, one of ihe leaders of Nazi July insurrection Austria, who was charged with the assassination of a gendarme. Two of his accomplices were given life Sentences and ten others received sen tences ranging between ten and twenty years. in_ prison.

In a speech here last night, the Chancellor Dr. "Kurt Schuschnigg, bitterly attacked the Socialists for their anti-religious. attitude—Havas,

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