Dr, Kurt von Schuschnigg, the last 'Austrian Chancellor, who has been under detention by the Germans since the incorporation of Austria in tthe Reich, has been shot by the Nazis, according' to the French newspaper "Lo Journal."
The German action is said to have Jotlowed Dr. von Schuschniga's re fusal to sign a manifesto urging Austrians to Aght for the German cause.
The son of General Artur Edler von Schuschnigg, Dr, von Schuschnig was born in 1897. He took part in the Grest War at the front, was several times decorated, and as a frst-lieutenant in the heavy artillery, was taken prisoner by the Italians just Before the close of the war.
not return to Austria until 1 when he took up work as a lawyer.
Dr. von Schuschnigg became Chancellor after the brutal murder of Dr. Engelbert Dollfuss, and with coolness and energy managed to suppress a Nazi rising, In February, 1938, however, Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg resigned following an ultimatum from Berlin, and was succeeded by the Austrian Nazi leader, Herr Arthur Seys-Inquart, who immediately asked the Reich'to send troops to help in preserving order, and some 0,000 highly armed and mechanized forces erossed the border.
'That was the beginning of the end of Austria, which was formally incorporated' into the Reich on March 18." President Wilhelm Miklas was forced out of office and Dr. von Schuschnigg was arrested—Reuter,
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