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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 21, 1939.

CZECHS IN REVOLT

SERIOUS CLASHES WITH STORM TROOPERS: EVEN WOMEN ATTACK OPPRESSORS

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London, To-day. AMERICAN

IT WAS ANNOUNCED in London last night that a

large-scale revolt in Bohemia and Moravia (the CREWS HOLD

former Czecho-Slovakia) has been in progress since Sunday.

The revolt started in a labour demonstration in Prague, and by Sunday night had developed into serious clashes between the Czech population and the Nazi authorities, chiefly Storm Troopers. Both sides used firearms and the casualties were

considerable.

During the first three days of this week, riots took place in other towns, including Pilsen Tabor, Pardubice, Fribrin, Piwk and Brno.

At Brno, some German Czechs made common cause with the Czechs.

On Tuesday, the revolt spread to Slovakia, Three Slovak garrisons, re volted, and 15,000 Slovak troops have been interned by the Nazis.

When the Nazi authorities realised that they were not deal- ing with sporadic outbreaks but

an organised movement, they at

once used ruthless methods. Thousands of arrests were made, and hundreds of

have Czechs been executed.

FIGHT GOES ON {

These Nazi measures do not appear

to have had the effect intended, and

the Czech fight against the superior forces of ruthless tyranny is still go-

ing on with magnificent courage and

determination.

From the tenacity and disciplinë displayed by the Czochs, it is clear that this is not just, a fiach In the pan..

weapon which came in hands.

UP LINERS

New York, To-day. Seven. American liners, including

badly

the Washington, which are cans, are being detained in New York by striking seamen who are asking for extra war-risk compensation.

needed in Europe to evacuate Amerl-

Negotiations between ship-owners

and the National Martime Union are insist on the ships sailing before they

apparently deadlocked as the owners

resume the conference. Reuter.

U-BOAT COMMANDERS BEHAVE WELL WITH TRAWLER CREWS

London, To-day.

SUMMER TIME TO GO ON

London, To-day.

Tho. Home Secretary: announ cod yesterday that Summer Time In Britain would be extended to 'the night, of November 18/19.

amounts to The extension about six weeks-Reuter.

WAR COUNCIL IN PARIS

London, To-day.. Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha (Secretary for War) and Lord Hankey (Minister without Portfolio)

For dier, in Paris yesterday.

saw the French

Premier, M. Edouard Dala-

They conferred with General Game- lin, French Commander-in-Chief, and the Chiefs of Staff of the French Navy, Army and Air Force.

The French Under-Secretary for us also did M. Coulondre.

TWO CASES OF COURTESY and consideration by Foreign Affairs attended the meeting.

German submarine commanders were reported by British vessels yesterday.

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Three British Staff officers accom- panied Mr. Hore-Belisha from Lon-

one case, a trawler captain who reached a home don-Reuter.

* port in safety together with his crew, said:

"We were stopped by a German submarine and or-

dered to abandon ship in our boats.

“We only had one lifeboat and this filled with water

directly we had piled into it.

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LITHUANIA'S

CLAIM TO VILNA

Kaunas, To-day.

which Lithuania's claim to Vilna,

dis-

Those with no firearms used any "The U-boat commander then ordered me to go on the Soviet has taken over, was

board the submarine, where he told me he re-cussed by the Lithuanian Minister in gretted he had to sink our vessel.

In Prague, labourers' wives used boards studded with nails to attack their oppressors.

'MUCH DAMAGE

No quarter was given by either side.

Bridges on railways and roads were destroyed, fire stations put out of action and railway rolling-stock and materials damaged,"

Many workshops were bombed and machinery destroyed. This report, which was issued by the Ministry of Information, confirms and amplifies less nuthoritative re- ports which have been appearing in the French press.

After one of these French reports, the Nazi radio admitted that many arrests had been made in Bohemia

and Moravia-Reuter.

EMPIRE APPEAL FOR RED CROSS

London, To-day. The Lord Mayor announced at Mansion House yesterday that the King and Queen had consented to become patrons of the Council to direct the Empire appeal for the Red Cross and St. John's-Reuter.

NAZIS. SEND. FIVE "OBSERVERS”

Washington, To-ddy.

Five officials of the Nazi Embassy

"He asked me if that was the only lifeboat we had, and I said 'Yes.'. He then changed his mind, and sent a boarding party over to us who smash- ed our radio and cut away the fish- ing gear.

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"As an afterthought, he sent sailor. over with a bottle of gin!”

LATWO OUT OF THREE The second case of courtesy on the part of an enemy submarine

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Moscow and the Soviet Foreign Com- missar, M. Molotov.-Reuter.

HITLER SPEECH: WHAT

OTHERS

SAY

Paris; To-day.

mander occurred when the trawlers A SEMI-OFFICIAL FRENCH statement in reply to Hitler's

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Lord Minto and Arlita were sunk. The crews returned to England a third trawler

Here the Gernian commander, after In discussfod with the skippers of the

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speech says ite object was to justify the Fuehrer before the German people.

timeworn manner, Hitler tried to split Britain and France:

three English vessels, said he would The statement refutes Hitler's claim that he was sincere in

sink two of the trawlers and allow the crew to proceed-back home on the third.

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He expressed his regret at having to sink the craftReuter.

MESSAGE FROM DEAD

"Oslo, To-day. Norwegian fishermen yesterday picked up a bottle containing a nổi trên thể Hoa

The note read: "9.0.9. Forced down | ›

in mid-Atlantic. If no help arrives in three days, I'm lost. Backman."

his desire for peace with Poland.

If Britain and France allowed Hit- ler to win victory, they would con- demn the world to slavery, the ruin of moral values and the destruction of liberty.Reuter.

DANISH, COMMENT

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in Washington have gone to Panama written by: Carl Backman, the sunde the Allies, to "observe" the extraordinary ses- | Swedish airman, who disappeared on

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