RUTHLESSLY CRUSHED
CZECHS AND AUSTRIANS SHOT
A message from Prague states that the German High Command has determined to lake the severest measures to deal with the demonstrators
in last Saturday's demonstrations in Czeeho-Slovakia, who sought to celebrate the anniversary of that country's independence. There were 800 arrests and many were killed in the clashes with the police.
Ruthless measures were also employed in quelling the mutiny of Austrian troops who are reported to have -rebelled against any further participation in the war following their repatriation from Poland. By order of court marshall one in every
ten men was shot
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 82, 1 November 1939, Page 5
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100RUTHLESSLY CRUSHED Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 82, 1 November 1939, Page 5
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