GESTAPO ACTIVE
ARRESTS 'IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA MAJORITY STUDENTS LONDON, Oct. 5. (Received Oct. 6, at 10 p.m.) According to Czech sources in London, September witnessed extensive arrests in Bohemia and Moravia of Czech intellectuals and workers. The Gestapo, in the main, imprisoned people who in the German opinion were, or might be, in contact with the Czechoslovakian Government in London. Recent information reaching these Czech sources intimates that a second wave of arrests followed the “ illegal ” celebration of the third anniversary of the death of President Masaryk Most of those arrested are students, and members of the Sokal Gymnastic staff were arrested by the Gestapo while in Gejkovice, in Moravia. Many members of the local Sokal were taken into custody and the gymnastic building occupied by the Gestapo because the gymnastic exhibited a picture of President Masaryk on the anniversary of his death.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24422, 7 October 1940, Page 7
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142GESTAPO ACTIVE Otago Daily Times, Issue 24422, 7 October 1940, Page 7
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