THE DEAD HEYDRICH

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 78, 15 July 1942, Page 3

THE DEAD HEYDRICH

Heydrich, "Protector" of Beliomia and Moravia had to resort to the threat of the death penalty for those interfering with the collection of furs, warm clothing, and skis for the Germany army. But the Czechs who have been stubborn enough to make the collection a failure, were exhorted and cajoled as well as threatened. One newspaper told them that the German army doesn't really need the clothes, but that the collection gives the Czechs a chance of proving their solidarity in the "New Europe." Another, the "Ceske Slovo," urged them to show their gratitude in their gifts to the Germans who have saved them from so many horrors. Even the poorest family, it said rather, disbelieved the theory that the Germans don't really need the goods, could contribute at least a pair of gloves. It was of little vise to tell the Slovaks that the German army can do without the civilians' warm clothes. The Slovenska Tiskova Kancelar's correspondent at the front described the Slovak soldiers on the Russian front as living in open trenches dug into the rocky fields, half-filled with water and ice, and under constant Russian fire.