The University of Vienna, the School of Commerce and the Polytechnic Institute have been ordered closed until the middle of next month as the authorities acceded to the demands of Austrian Nazi students that the institutions be closed pending settlement of the conflict that has arisen between the students and the Government regarding the suspension of the traditional autonomy of the universities from outside interference.
Three hundred police were sent into the University of Vienna grounds Saturday when Nazi student rioters raided a celebration of Catholic students at which Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss was a speaker, thus precipitating the conflict. University grounds have long been immune from the police unless the rector of the institution called the authorities.
A large detachment of Vienna police remained on duty in the university buildings today to prevent disturbances.
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