Austria’s cilvi war flatred strongy tonight as the government forces of Chancellor Dollfuss brought up heavy artillery to use against the Sociatist strogholds as totals of the dead in the two-day dicorders reached a total estimrted in some quarters as high as 2,000. Pearce was reestablished in the Jewish districts of Vienna tonight as tension eased somewhat. Jewish shops in some of the districts, which had been closed and tightly shuttered yesterday and today, were opening for business tonight. The center of the city and the dense Jewish quarters just across the Danube were peaceful under heavy police guard. The centers of Jewish population in the Austrian capitol were not in the range of fire of the artillery brought into play by the government in the fierce battles for control of the remaining Socialist strongholds in the city.
FEAR OF ATTACKS
Fear of attackes in the Jew by Austrian, Nazis while all government forces were pressed to service against the Socialists were renewed this afternoon when an airplane bearing swastika emblems on its wings, circled over the city and bombarde all sections with manifestoes of an anti-Semitic nature. Previous silence of the Nazis, who at first had done everthing in their power to foment disorders attendant on the Specialist anti-Fascist general strike, had been largely responsible for the easing of tension in Jewish cicles. It had been feared that the Austrian Hitlerites would take advantage of the disorders and the preoccupetion of the government forces to perpetrate a new series of attacks on the jews. This fear was renewed with the appearance of the airplane this afternoon and other signs that the priviusly quiescent Nazis would soon be beard form
The Second and Twentieth Districts of Vienna. both well populated by Jews, were isolate from the rest of the city tonight by government forces seeking to disdodge Socialist units barrebaded there in determined resistance against the Dollfuss froops. Jewish residents of the battle area, however, were permitted to leave th districts on presentation of proof that they were Jewish. A card of membership in any Jewish organization was being accepted by the mlitary as sufficient proof of identity.
INSTITUTIONS UNDAMAGED
A hasty survey by the Vienna Jewish community organization today revealed that none of the Jewish institutions in th battle area had received any serious damage from howitzers, artilery, bombs and grenades used by the combatants.
the Vienna Jewish Genneindealso informed the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that so far, it head received no complaints from Jews in the city regarding looting or other damages sufferered during the disorders.
Fighting today cut off the Jewish Home for the Aged from its kosher meat supply since the Jewish community’s kitchen is located in one of th districts in which the disorderd are still continuing.
From a dozen other points in Upper Austria, reports trickled thrugh here, despite the veil of official silence, of strong Socialist resistance to the Dollfuss forces and allies. In Linz, Styr, Bruck, Kappenberg and other points, engagements with all the panoply of a full-blooded war were taking place.
The Dollfuss government today called on the Union of Jewish War Veterans, numbering 17,000 members, to join the government forces against the Socialists. The organization announced today:
“We are prepared to stand with the government and with the Jewish general, Sommer, president of the union.”
Dr. Julius Braunthal, well known Socialist leader an supporter of the Poale Zion, was arrested today by the Poice. Otto Bauer, noted Socialist leader, escped from “protective arrest” and was today at the head of a detachment of fighting Socialists.
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