CZECHS WARNED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20918, 19 October 1942, Page 4

CZECHS WARNED

“BLOOD GUILTINESS” EXPIATION THREATS GERMAN LEADERS (10.20 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 18.^ Herr Karl Hermann Frank, the' German Secretary Of State at the renaming of a district in Prague “Reinhard Heydrich Embankment,” said: “Ancient History and -National Socialism alike recognise Bohemia arid Moravia cannot exist .without’ the Reich. Our task is to win back both provinces, mentally and spiritually, for the Reich. 1 -’The life and deeds of Heydrich should be 'an, adrrionition for the Czechs to take hefed and mend'their’ways. How the Czechs behave now will decide their fate. The blood'guiltiness which burdens the' Czechs is’so vast that it can only fib expiated'-when' Heydrich’s political testament is executed. If fate has dealt severely' "with the ' Czech educated classes, it is : because 90 per cent' of the enemies of the Reich belong to those classes.” ’ ’ ;“" According to the Vichy radio, Dr. Frank also said, that close relatives of Czech agitators who took refuge in London had been- rounded up and interned in concentration camps. “I warn the Czechs-against the new appeals- to insurrection and sabotage which are now being launched from London,” he said.