Wholesale Arrests In Prague
Received Friday,. 10.40 a.m. . ' PRAGUE, Oct. 6. • Road and rail traffic to and from Prague is being cheeked tonight as police combed the . city making widespread ar- j rests. The roads have been ( watched all the week and j every traveller has to satisfy 1 the police about his identity. Just what is happening is J not clear, but shooting incidents have occurred and many ] administrative chiefs in the : Ministries are under arrest or ] have been held fo£ interroga- 1 tion. Everything suggests that ( a vigorous purge is proceeding and hundreds of persons sus-'; pected of unreliability are being. picked up by the police. j There are multiplying re- J ports of arrests, purges, mys- 1 terious disappearances and shootings. ; So many local residents and sources outside Prague have yeported the disappearance of friends and relatives that it is now evident that the arrests number many hundreds and even thousands.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 October 1949, Page 5
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