Vienna, The monastery of the Se: (or Servants of the Blessed Virgin), at Innsbruck, the most, important monastery in the Tyrol' has been closed by the Gestapo, and nine monks, in addition to some thirty vote citizens at Innsbruck, have been arrested. More arrests are expected to follow.
The reason alleged by the authorities for this sensational anti-church measure is "immorality" and "political activity against the State," but further details are withheld, It has only been stated that the Murder of Brazilian President Planned Rio de Janeiro, Nov. 4.
A plot to assassinate the President, Dr. Getulio Vargas, figures in a document, which has just been published here and which is alleged to have been seized during the investigation of the Fascist rising last May.
The paper is said to have been sent bys Lieutenant Fournier, an imprisoned Fascist leader, to Valverde, another of those implicated in the revolt.
It describes a plan for a fresh rebellion and proposes the assassination of President Vargas, the Prime Minister, the Chief of the General Staff of the Army, the Chief of Police and others—Reuter. fects are "too shocking to be described,"
An official asserts that events in this monastery would justify closing all the monasteries in Austria.
Official Catholic circles decline to make a statement on the measure, tut there is a strong belief that events in Innsbruck are only the beginning of a new anti-church drive in Austria.
The Servite Order dates back to the thirteenth century, when, in 1233, it was founded in Tuscany by seven Florentine merchants. It underwent reformation in 1593.—Reuter.
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