known as the Heimwehr, revolted under Dr. Pfriemer and seized
a number of towns. Their leader proclaimed himself Fascist dictator of Austria. They used machine- guns in Kapfenberg, and several Socialists were killed or wounded. The Government took prompt measures to repress the rising. The troops and police remained faithful to the Republic, and by the evening the affair was over. A small detachment of the Vienna Heimwehr, posted outside the capital, was disarmed and put under arrest. Prince Starhemberg, their leader in Upper Austria, was arrested on Monday. The Socialists abstained from calling out their volunteer force and supported the Government. There will, however, be no lasting peace in Austria while these political parties maintain military organizations with stocks of arms. A slighter demonstration of Fascist sentiment was stayed in Berlin on Saturday evening, when bands of Herr Hitler's followers assaulted all the Jews whom they found in the Kurffirstendam, the leading shopping street. Anti-Semitism is unhappily a main tenet of Herr Hitler's creed.
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