THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 20, 1939.
NAZI TANKS ON PATROL Brutal Repressive Measures Taken In Prague
HUNDREDS DRAFTED TO BUCHENWALD
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Brussels, To-day. WHILE THREE MORE Czechs, two of whom were police officials, were executed, Nazi tanks pa- trolled Prague streets throughout the day, being a reminder of the events in March when the Ger- mans invaded Czecho-Slovakia. Meanwhile widespread repression is being carried out mainly against Czech intellectuals and many universities have been raided.
and
At dawn yesterday, motorised de- tachments of the German State po- lice arrived from the Reich immediately surrounded Sveilla and Masaryk Colleges and invaded the premises.
Students were brutally dragged out from their beds, thrown into lorries, and carried to concentration camps.
Later the Gestapo invaded several other colleges and the medicine and law sections of the Polytechnic In- stitute arresting all the students and professors. Later all of them were thrown into the concentration camp at Buchenwald, near Weimar.
SOKOL ARRESTS
Gestapo squads also arrested several members of patriotic organisations,
HOW
HACHA
INCURRED NAZI
WRATH
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Amsterdam, To-day. Events leading to President Hacha's internment in Lany Arrests, since yesterday, have Castle are outlined by the
including Sokols.
at the en-
reached several thousands,' Ma- chine-guns are posted trance to all German buildings. Havas.
50,000 ARRESTS REPORTED
Paris, To-day. There have been 50,000 arrests in Bohemia and Moravia since Friday, according to a despatch from the Austrian frontier.
The despatch reports the arrests of "certain political personalities."
Reuter.
THE SOWING OF THE. DRAGON'S TEETH
New York, To-day. Commenting on Germany's mass arrests of Czechs the "New York Times" says that now the Germans have sown the dragon's teeth they have given the Czechs a sacred cause which they will never forget.
When the time comes. the Czechs will rise and strike, and the Young men who have just died will march at the head of Reuter.
newspaper "Het Volk.”
measures,
Demonstrations in Prague on Octo- ber 28-the Czech National Day-pro- voked very serious disturbances and the Nazis took ruthless even shooting into a crowd.
The Gestapo chief, Herr Himmler, rebuked his subordinates for methods detrimental for German propaganda abroad, and Baron von Neurath, "Pro- tector" of Bohemia and Moravia sug- gested that he would try to remedy the situation.
OFFER REJECTED
WINNING THE WAR COMFORTABLY
Paris, To-day. "The men of the British Ex- peditionary Force are al' cheer- ful and their health is good.
"I am confident we are win- ning the war comfortably," said the War Secretary, Mr. Leslie Hore-Balisha, before he left the British front yesterday-Reuter.
PRAGUE DISORDERS FOSTERED BY NAZIS!
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Berne, To-day.
Deutsche Nachrichten Bu- ro, the official German news agency, reports that martial law has been proclaimed in several districts of Bohemia and Moravia, following the
demonstrations
IN recent
NEW DEAL IN AMERICAS
Prague.
in
The population applies only to the non-German populations of the cities. of Prague, Kladno, Beraun and Horchowitz.
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Guatemala, To-day.' It is disclosed the Prague's demon- The exchange committee of the Instration last Thursday was a Nazi- ter-American Conference has propos-sponsored anti-Czech show staged by ed four resolutions concerning:- Fascist groups founded by Germans and whose total membership is only about 5,000 throughout the Protec- torate,
The standardization of customs pro- cedure;
A means of establishing exchange levels for the various American cur- rencies, in order to facilitate inter- American payments;
The prevention of smuggling: And regular contacts between the various treasuries on' economic, fin- ancial and other data.--Havas.
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POLICE ARRESTED! When the demonstrators became dangerous, the Czech police tried to disperse them, whereupon the Gestapo arrested several policemen.
Dr. Hans Frank, German state minister and head of the Polish administration, is also believed to be the "true master" of Bohemia and Moravia while von Neurath daggers is a mere figure-head. Sincere Com-replace
Connaught The Germans
with
HOLD UP IN.CITY
Five men armed
in held up pedestrians Road Central near the pány at 7 a.m. to-day. with $14.78.
apparently wish to the government headed by They escaped General Elias by a new government
more docile to Berlin.
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NO PARADES AND NO
FLOWERS-BY REQUEST
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London, To-day.
Von Neurath called on Dr. Hacha MR. ANTHONY EDEN, Secretary of State for the
and proposed important reforms
to
bring an end to the "demonstration of loyalism." Czechia, he said, would
be given wider autonomous powers in return for declaring
war on France
and Great Britain, sending a “symbo- lical army" to the Front.
When Dr. Hacha refused, the Nazis declared that he was over. worked and
placed him under "home arrest."
The paper "Het Volk" declares that Germany realizes the impossibility of maintaining Bohemia's present status their battalions and yet does not want, for propagan- da reasons, to incorporate the terri- tory into the Reich.-Havas,
CZECH ACTION ABROAD
Washington, To-day.
The Czech Legation in Washington and Czech consulates throughout the United States lowered their flags to halfmast when they received the sad news of the murder of youths by the Nazis; Such an action for ordinary citizens has not carried out for many years. Reuter.
NO VIOLENT REACTION
London, To-day. the Czech It is reported
hitherto, there has been
from Prague that, no violent been reaction to the Gestapo executions.
Repressive measures continue, and arrested continue on a large scale.- Reuter.
NEUTRAL PROTESTS
observers.
Dominions, who recently visited Paris and the Front with the Dominion representatives, yester- day made a radio speech in French in which he said:-
"To many of us, this visit brought back memories of
20
years ago.
"There is not, perhaps, the air of adventure which prevailed at the beginning of the last war-no parades, no flowers.
BRITON SET FREE
SHANGHAI, TO-DAY:. AFTER BEING HELD IN CUS- TODY FOR MORE THAN FIVE HOURS, MR. EGEBERG, OF THE S.M.P., WAS RELEASED YESTER- DAY EVENING, BUT THE TWO CHINESE CONSTABLES ARE STILL DETAINED.
"We know by experience what war means, but everywhere is seen the firm resolve to put a definite end to periodically renewed aggression. "No one doubts our victory. "We visited the British sector. The soldiers' health and training were ex- cellent.
"The British sector is being rapid- ly reinforced.
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"We also visited the famous Ma- ginot Line, defended by an army which knows no peer for calm courage, training and efficiency.
Before his release, Egeberg was
FRANCE'S CONTRIBUTION London, To-day.
prevailed upon to sign a blank- plece
"France has made heavy financial Such extracts from the neutral The Netherlands newspaper, "Maas-
of paper as his confession.
and economic sacrifices to build this. press, relating to the Nazi action in bade," argues that brutal measuresing, emanating from an unascertained recognize with gratitude the debt they Accompanied as it was by some fir- Line. To-day, liberty-loving peoples Czechoslovakia in the last few days, never have practical results, while source, the Japanese action in detain- owe to these defences and to the army as have so far reached London, indi-the Danish "Politiken" finds it suxing the Police officers created con-which is occupying them. cate that the extreme severity of the prising that a regime which has builtsiderable tension in the entire vicinity. measures reported to have been taken itself up on the thesis of the strength
*It is easy to imagine how different to repress expressions of nationalist of the national bond should under-es-tor the incident occurred, took over not France persisted in bringing up to
The Italian Marines, in whose sec- the situation would have been sentiment and popular discontent, has timate the strength of national feeling control for some time last night. incurred the disapproval of neutral in another case-British Wireless.
perfection her army and fortifications." Router.
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