FRONTIER CLASH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 October 1938, Page 5

FRONTIER CLASH

FIVE CZECHS SHOT DEAD BY GERMAN CUSTOMS OFFICIALS. DISTRICT MAYOR AMONG VICTIMS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) i LONDON, October 20. The Prague correspondent of the British United Press says an Army announcement states that' five Czechs were shot dead; in a frontier clash, by German customs officials yesterday. It adds that during the work in connection with the rectification of boundaries Germans evacuated the village of Zelochovice, near Litogericejand a Czech patrol entered to confirm the evacuation. Some of the townspeople lowered Swastika flags from their windows and a Henleinist policeman dashed off to the nearby town of Cizkovice and returned with German customs officials, who fired on a Czech patrol, killing a soldier and three policemen. Subsequently the mayor of one of 'the districts was. killed in further shooting. A* farmer, whom a German soldier recently wounded at Vazacka, has died.

DYNAMITE ON RAILWAY HUNGARIAN TERRORISTS ACCUSED. SAID TO HAVE BEEN CAUGHT IN THE ACT. (Received This Day, 10.0 a.m.) PRAGUE, October 20. The military authorities report that seventeen sticks of dynamite were removed from the railway between Uzhorod and Kapusany. Hungarian terrorists allegedly were caught in the act of placing the explosive. A captive balloon travelled the Hungarian side of the Slovak frontier, dropping leaflets subversive of Czech authority.