CZECH REVOLT
VOICE OF THE PUPPET |Rec. 1 p.m. LONDON, August 31. All Slovakia is in revolt, according I to a radio statement made by the puppet President, Father Tiso, from Bratislava. Tiso said: "A few foreign agitators have succeeded in seducing many people, including army groups, Government officials, farmers, and artisans to join the general uprising." It is believed that Czechoslovak troops in the Soviet Union.. have been parachuted into Slovakia to co-ordinate the resistance forces. Tiso said: "Foreign agitators have used rumours to bolster up the rage of the population. For that reason the Slovakian Government, faced with the wholesale destruction of private property, had to call on the German army to march in to pacify the country." He appealed to those who had taken up arms to surrender and to give information about partisans, when they would go unpunished. The Defence Minister and the Com-mander-in-Chief, who followed Tiso, admitted that complete battalions of Slovak troops had joined the partisans, j
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 54, 1 September 1944, Page 6
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