demonstrations against the Doll-fuss government to be followed by armed revolt had been issued by a German “agency” in Munich. The Nazis were also ordered to effect quick rescues of all Nazis sentenced to death by the Austrian government.
Austria still waited apprehensively to see whether the Nazis would carry out their frequently reiterated threats to take a bloody vengeance for all Nazis put to death by the Austrian government and to blow up Austrian Catholic churches in retaliation.
With armed revolt a matter of history, the government moved to clean up all Nazi opposition. A decree was issued today forbidding the payment of salaries to all Austrian officials suspected of aiding or encouraging the Nazi revolt. The order was immediately telegraphed to all provincial and district government chiefs.
In Innsbruck two Nazis who killed the local chief of police went on trial today. A death sentence for the two men was expected within a few hours.
HUDL PUT ON TRIAL
In Vienna Paul Hudl, a former lieutenant in the Austrian army, went on trial before the same court martial, which sentenced Planetta and Holzweber to death. Hudl, said to be a close friend of Major Emil Fey and one of the leaders of the band of 144 Nazis who captured the members of the Austrian cabinet, faces the same punishment meted out to his two comrades.
At the same time it became known that the government was exceedingly hesitant about applying the death penalty to the remaining members of the Nazi putschists soon to go on trial before a court martial. Most of the captured Nazis are youths whose average age is twenty and the government desires to avoid the stigma of having executed minors. Austrian authorities are also anxious not to earn the reputation for bloodiness such as the German Nazi regime acquired by the blood purge of June 30.
It appeared likely, therefore, that the remainder of the Nazi band would escape with prison sentences for their participation in the events which led to the killing of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss.
In the meantime regular Austrian army troops reinforced by Heimwehr detachments are on the alert all through Austria to crush the first signs of any revolt. Churches and public buildings all through Austria are closely guarded and all entrants are carefully scrutinized.
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