Hitler-approved 1LWI1 uxiuu mm iVtlli VIENNA, Saturday; March 12. P) -Ger man troops moved toward Vienna in the early morning: hours today to back up Nazification of the Austrian state. The troops, numbering- about 1,000 men In trucks, expected to reach the capital at noon (4 a. m. M. S. T.). They carried several pieces of light artillery, the gendarmerie commandant at Schoerding on the Bavaria n border told the Associated Press by telephone. They met no resistance, and were heading first for Linz, where Nazis prepared an enthusiastic welcome."" " " : VIENNA. March 12. lated to Adolf Hitler in a bloodless revolution nation into a Nazi state. Faced by a German the government was reorganized as Hitler wished, the government gave up its five-year fight agains t the German fuehrer. The bloodless revolution came after two days of violence through out Austria. It was accomplished in eight hours. Czechs Again Warn Hitler P R A H A. CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Saturday, March T12.--JiriCMch oslovakla today reasserted that any attempt by Germany to encroach upon her border would be met with armed rexbtance. ' Wi "Cisech cabinet wm turn-moned Into emergency aeaalon last night by President Edonard Bene while the frontier guards were being strengthened and Austrian refugees fled across the border Into Bratislava. Before the session wan over this morning the following communique was Issued: "The Chechoslovakian government Is following events in Austria with special attention and consider the situation coolly and calmly along the lines of Premier Milan Hodza's recent declaration." Premier Hodza said In a speech several days ago that Czechoslovakia would throw every resource of her armed might Into resisting any attempt upon the country's Independence. "Premier Hodia and Foreign Minister Kamil Krfola are In constant telephonic communication with Chechoslovakian diplomats In the main capitals." - The government officially denied that the Chechoslovakian army was being mobilised, but admitted that the customs guards were being reinforced to prevent Illegal Infiltration of fugitives. Strict control of the frontiers also was ordered to prevent arms smuggling. Hundreds of panlc-stric,ken Aus-trlans were arriving by night trains from Vienna. Numerous private automobiles crossed the Danube bridge Into Bratislava. It was rumored that Ouldo Zr-natto, former Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg's deputy commander of the Austrian fatherland front, was among the arrivals. M'NUTT -PLANS TO RETURN TO U. S. ' WASHINGTON, March 11. (U.R) Paul V. McNutt, high commissioner of the Philippine commonwealth announced tonight that he plans to return to the United States before the first of next year, but indicated that he would not accept the presidency of Indiana University. McNutt, prominently mentioned as a democratic presidential possibility in 1940, told a large crowd of Indiana friends at a reception here that he will return to stay but1 "not for what you think." New Chancellor Trims Trees as Austria Falls VIENNA, March 11. (TV-Austria's new chancellor pruned an apple tree today while history was in the making. After talking and conferring throughout the night, Arthur Seysz-Inquart went to a big pear and apple orchard in an outlying section of Vienna. There he carried on his unalterable daily habit of tree-, pruning. After an hour and a half of snipping twigs he returned to the conferences. I SI MWW 1 ' till 6 uJLdU Uhl u w LETE mi BILE (Saturday) (AP) ultimatum threatening Swept out of office by Germany's demands was Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, who had fought to preserve Austrian Independence in the old course of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, who was assassinated in a Nazi putsch, July 25, 1934. Succeeding him as chancellor and Austria's man of the hour was Austria's Nazi leader, Arthur Seysz-Inquart, political friend of Hitler. Forms New Seysz-Inquart immediately formed a new cabinet, all but two of whom were Nazis. Apparently Wllhelm Mlklas still was president. - The government radio told Vienna and other Austrian ' citles---iwhere Nazis went wild In' jubilant demonstration that Seysz-Inquart Tiad been appointed by Mlklas. , But the president, who through his years In office had supported Schuschnigg, made no announcement to the Austrian people. Also swept out of office was another leader of the old regimeMayor Richard Schmltz of Vienna. His city staged a demonstration that was probably without precedent. Crowds who heard radio announcements that German troops were on their way Into Austria stampeded through the streets. Swastikas appeared by the thousands. Schuschnigg Makes Announcement. All Vienna seemed to be shoutlngH'Hell Hitler!" Schuschnigg himself, who yesterday called out 100,000 reserves and 30,000 guardsmen to supplement his regular army of 70,000 in the face of German troop mobilization, told Austria of Germany's ultimatum. In an address last night he declared that "we are not minded at any price to shed German blood" and ordered his troops to withdraw "in the case of invasion" by German forces. The ultimatum set a time limit in which the president had to appoint a chancellor and government "according to the dictates of the German relch." Threat It said that unless this were man troops would charge across the border. There was concern In Vienna throughout the night over reports that German troops already were on Austrian soli. The reports were contradictory. One said motorized units had reached Linz, Nazi stronghold 40 miles from the Austro-German frontier. It was Indicated, however, that these reports may have been founded on mistaken belief that marching Austrian, or S. S. (Nazi guard) troops were German soldiers, Defeat of Schuschnigg's dream of an independent Austria was foreshadowed yesterday afternoon. Then Schuschnigg postponed indefinitely the plebiscite he had ordered for Sunday to register Austria's opinion on independence or submission to Nazi demands. It was Schuschnigg's sudden announcement Wednesday that the plebiscite would be held which precipitated two days and nights of turmoil throughout Austria. Delivers Ultimatum. Nazis assailed It as a violation of Schuschnigg's agreement with Hitler at Berchtesgaden February 12. The tension finally precipitated yesterday's street clashes and mobilization. This was the way chancellery sources pictured the march of th3 bloodless revolution inits critical hours. In the early afternoon yesterday, Wllhelm Keppler, German state secretary, arrived by airplane. He went immediately to the chancellery and demanded that Schuschnigg's proposed plebiscite be postponed. Miklas refused to yield to the ultimatum, saying he was an elected official and that he could submit to no such threats." Then Keppler telephoned to Berlin. , Invasion Within a short time, General Muff, German military attache, appeared at the chancellery with the threat that if the plebiscite were not postponed, German troops would march in Mlklas" refused to yield to this second ultimatum, saying: "I may have to yield, but it will be a yielding to force.' : , At this critical moment, with the prospect of German invasion, the president called military, commanders for a conference on national defense. -. Schuschnigg, informed of the developments, told the president he refused to be responsible for "the shedding of German blood." He offered his resignation. Mlklas was reluctant to accept it. a But Schuschnigg prevailed, and a few minutes later made his dramatic radio address, saying that in that fateful hour Austria was menaced by a German ultimatum to which a time limit was attached. Reports that Field Marshal Hermann Wllhelm Goerlng, Hitler's Austria has capitu which converted this armed invasion unless Cabinet. of Force. done within a few hours. Ger- Threat. right, hand man, was In Vienna were denied in ail authoritative quarters. ..Vienna in Turmoil. (Reports in London said Goerlng and Rudolph Hess, another of Hit- (Conttoued on Page 10, Col, 2)
