RULE OF TERROR
NAZI “PROTECTORATE”
OPPRESSION OF CZECHS
PUBLIC EXECUTIONS
BOYS AND GIRLS SLAIN
(Reed. Nov. 24, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 23,
In a telephone message from Bucharest, a correspondent of the New York Times, Mr. Kovacs, says it is reported from Prague through uncensored channels that the family of the Czech student .lan Oplethal, who died as a result of six revolver wounds, inflicted by Germans, received his ashes on November 14.
Students of both sexes carrying the Czech flag took the urn to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, but were driven back by Germans.
Thirty were arrested. Nine boys and two girls were publicly-executed. The rest were sent to a concentration camp in Germany.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20103, 24 November 1939, Page 7
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118RULE OF TERROR Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20103, 24 November 1939, Page 7
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