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CZECH REVOLT

GERMAN

PLANES

NOT

OVER FRANCE

Paris, To-day.

In addition to reconnaissance raids over Britain yesterday, Ger- man planes also made an appear- ance over France.

The air raid alarm was sound- ed over a wide

area in north- western France, but no bombs were dropped.--Reuter.

NAZIS MEET WITH TRADE SNAGS

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Stockholm, To-day.

The Moscow correspondent of the "Tidningen" reports that the Soviet- Nazi trade negotiations are meeting with serious difficulties, notably be- cause the Sovlet refuse to export metals which are indispensable for Germany's war economy.

The correspondent points out that several Russian Iron works closed down recently on account of the lack of raw materials; Russian production is deficient and Imports have been made difficult by the war-Havas.

QUELLED

FLOODS

NAZI OPPRESSIVE MEASURES CONTINUE DEFEAT

London, To-day.

THAT THE NAZIS have in no way cowed the re- markable spirit of Czecho-Slovakia, and that the notorious Black Guards are indulging in an orgy of hooliganism in Prague, is revealed in re- liable reports reaching London last night. A report from Bucharest says that workingmen and women are joining with students in resisting their Nazi oppressors.

A manifesto has been issued by Czech students in Prague, and distributed in pamphlet form in Prague and other Czech towns, saying, inter alia :

will

"The Czech youth

continue cords and ran their daggers through the fight against Naziism."

pictures of President Masaryk and Other reports indicate that the other Czech heroes. students have been by no means The building is situated in the quelled by the brutal methods of the workmen's suburb of Prague, and

contains many

irreplaceable docu- ments from the Great War.-Reuter.

Nazis.

Meanwhile, qfficial. Czech sources in London last night revealed in- formation received from Prague through underground channels.

SHRINE DESTROYED According to this information, Black Guards and Gestapo (the Nazi secret police) are running wild in Prague.

The National Monument of Libera- tion, a Czech shrine containing docu- ments relating to the Czech struggle for freedom in the Great War, has been destroyed:

PICTURES STABBED Black Guards, in a senseless orgy of destruction, burned valuable re-

SOVIET POLICY VEERS TOWARDS NEUTRALITY

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Moscow, To-day. RELIABLE INDICATIONS here lead to the belief that despite the press campaign against the "Western Imperialists,” Soviet Russia is grad- ually assuming more and more a neutral atti- tude. The policy is chiefly motivated by the conviction nów almost unanimously prevailing in Moscow that the Allies are winning the war and apprehension concerning the Allies' attitude to Russia follow- ing their victory.

The Soviets are in a difficult posi

The same preoccupation: accounts

tion as a result of their recont: at- for the Soviet desire to titude, and this leads them, it is re-tralize Japan.--Havas. ported, to take all strategical positions

MINES MENACE

Copenhagen, To-day. sighted off north Jutland.

Several floating mines have been

GERMANS

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Paris, To-day. Continuous rains last week have again raised the level of the Rhine and its tributaries, slowing up military opera- tions.

While the French,

who hold the high bank of the Rhine, are not great- ly disturbed, the Germans have again to check the

had to take measures rising waters, notably by building

dykes.

The Germans have abandoned several advanced positions which were flooded.-Havas.

ESCAPE FROM GERMANY

Amsterdam, To-day, Four Germans who escaped from Germany to avold military service were arrested In Amsterdam yester- day and interned.-Reuter,

ping by the Danish Ministry of Ship-

A warning has been issued to ship-ping.-Reuter.

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