Fighting was also said to have broken out again In the Karl Marx Hof. badly battered Socialist apartment house, which was captured by troops several times, with resistance breaking out again each time.
At Innsbruck it was reported Jhat the Austrian Legion, recruited by the German Nazis from Austrian Nazis who escaped, is massed on the Austrian border. Austrian authorities.arc said to have mobilized Heimwehr guards and to have reinforced them with all available gendarmes.
Socialist leaders ridiculed a declaration made by Chancellor Doll-fuss that only 241 were slain in the fighting. They estimated the dead at 2,500. News agencies estimated the total At 1,000 to 1,500 and declared that they saw no reason to revise their totals.
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